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~ i. •4*- if™ of the week PEAK Interviews by Dock Currie. Photos by JustiIkn Mah. Why do you think the Canadian Olympic The poetics of [our] space men's hockey team got knocked out? I was quoted in a rather decontex- happens in the public forum, but and exercise agency. While there are tualised statement in the February in the private sphere as well. Living undoubtedly issues of race and class 13 edition, in an article discussing in residence is one place where this at work, women living together are Nigel Wakita the fate of Madge Hogarth House is made obvious. In co-ed dorms, more "equals" than women and men His inner child spat up ["Dorms too expensive to fix," Febru• as is reflective of society in general, living together (as is the nature of pa• and cried on my plane ary 13] as saying that "there was more women and men are often in com• triarchy). 1 am by no means arguing competition among women in other petition for space to voice opinions. that segregation of the sexes should I think there was a lot of pres• dorms." This statement needs to be Women's voices are heard less fre• always occur, but that there needs sure on them to win. I think it clarified. quently, and the need to be validated to be an alternate forum for those has a lot to do with the diferent While women's voices are increas• by the more powerful group (men) is women who choose to live in this ice size — But that shouldn't ingly heard more clearly thanks to the urgent for many women. This leads to circumstance. Women living together really matter because they've work of many devoted feminists in a form of "competition" in which the can support each other in addressing won on it before. the fight against patriarchy, patriar• less-powerful group (women) may or their own oppression on a day-to-day chy is by no means gone. We live in an may not be heard by the dominant basis. oppressive patriarchal society that is and have to work for their own space. This same argument applies to Tom Kineshanko built on hierarchies that oppress and Women's-only spaces have worked the existence of the Women's Centre Wore a captain's hat rob those who are not the dominant to combat this, giving women a on campus. While it is of course im• until it flew away group of their voice. This not only place to exert their own autonomy portant for there to be male allies in the fight against patriarchy, power Chemistry. A distinct lack of relations are undoubtedly at work chemistry. Such as is not here, too. Women need space to as• suffered by the SFU track and I know you are pissed off. . . sert their agency and work together. field team — who have strong Before you continue to blame every• viewers sympathise with the mission When women are united within their chemistry and will dominate thing on whites, Miss Farsai ["More of these anti-god protagonists. As own common oppression, there is at next week's NAIA champi• than a little pissed off," February 20], for those people that opposed such a bridge across race and class. It is onships. I want you to take a closer look at characters, many people simply label beautiful to see women working and the campus: is it true that everyone's them as "conservatives" and ignore living together. It is especially in cir• white? No, there are also other races, them. cumstances such as these that we can Assem Mihirig especially Far East Asian (comprising Then there is the fact that you see the worthwhile fight against op• Popped the question, then 40 per cent of the SFU student popu• completely misunderstand comedy pressive systems such as patriarchy the cork, we said yes lation). Many of these people don't itself as a whole. One reason why the actually creating change. even care if their own culture and cartoon is funny to some is because —Raquel Park Because they're too overcon• history are challenged. For example: it is based on some certain truth, fident from the last Olympics! Japan has been downplaying, even then exaggerated. A cartoon of Jesus That's it. They thought they changing their role in WWII, starting burning is just that — a burning On Warren would dominate and not have with denying the Rape of Nanking Jesus. A cartoon of burning Moses is to get it together as a team. and followed by paying tribute to harder to relate, since as far as most some of the worst war criminals. Yes, people are concerned, the Jews have Hcicis . . . those in mainland China protested yet to blow up people randomly (un• I'd like to send a big shout-out to . . . but what about here? Did the less you mean Israelis, then yes.) Warren Haas for taking the early lead Asian students support those pro• On the other hand, you could draw for this term's dumbest article ["It's Linda Cummings tests? No! In fact, most embrace those Jesus rewriting the New Testament four courses, it's not brain surgery," Supervillian's understudy cultures that once suppressed them, for his own needs, while doing crack February 20]. "Article" is probably such as the English and Japanese and speaking like a maniac. I am not too kind of a word to describe it, 1 think they were nervous cultures, following materialism. If going to turn it into a lesson, but but oh well. In his "article," Warren when they got there. And I they don't care and respect their own humour is always based on certain rambles on about how great he is think they were overshadowed culture, why would they care about "facts," and then (the key here) uses for taking five classes and that any• by the Gretzky scandal. They the fact that the cartoon has heavily exaggeration in a funny manner of one taking less than five is "lazy" or psyched themselves out. offended Muslims? Their responses speech. A reason the cartoonist had "stupid." Well Mr. Haas (Ass would are obviously along the lines of "No those cartoons in mind is because, be more appropriate but I wouldn't comment," since they cannot relate. while Christians would condemn it want to disrespect your poor old Heck, most people even want to avoid if a cartoon like that were printed daddy who took six classes), I no• being interviewed, leaving only those in respect to their Jesus, they would ticed the title under your name says whites who are willing to speak out not go out and post a reward to "Humour Editor." This strikes me Eunice Yoon (remember the "commuter campus" get the cartoonist killed. Just like as odd as your piece was anything Breaking my all- argument). Instead of just blaming an echo, the more aggressive you but funny. "Rambling Bullshit Edi• Canadiana heart The Peak or whites, you should also go, the more likely people will go tor" would be far more appropriate ask why so many students do not against your opinion. [Opinions Editor's note: No, that's my speak out at all. You definitely deserve the right to job —r kidding, totally kidding... send I'm not particularly interested me letters]. Then there is the fact that you seem express your anger, but before you in hockey. I guess they didn't to believe everyone is religious, which blame everything on "Christians" But maybe the whole joke is on the practice. is definitely not true. Thus, you can and "Anglo-Saxons," you should reader when they finish and figure appeal to us in regards to respect, but also look around the population, how much of a waste their last two challenging us to make fun of Jesus analyse it clearly, and speak your minutes was. Was it a slow week for or Moses merely showed that you mind in a professional manner. In you in the news department? Or are completely out of touch with the simple cases, by ignoring such facts maybe you were too busy with your On a personal mission to crush Western world. In many television your opinion can be easily ridiculed, five classes to come up with any• shows, Jesus has been made fun of while in the worst cases it can turn thing remotely humourous or rel• and/or support Buzz and many times, and so is God himself; against you, inciting even more evant. Unless you want to take over Hiaspire. I haven't decided heck, even Mel Brooks has made fun discriminations. Read the Muslim the writing duties for "Susie's Night of Moses and his religion. In fact, if Student Association's article, for ex• Out" in The Province, I hope for your yet. Either way, write for Peak you will, many modern media prod• ample ["From the MSA," February sake you don't use your five classes a Opinions, yo. ucts have a natural tendency to make 20]. That's how one should condemn term to do anything that resembles God an enemy one way or another, in a professional manner. journalism in the future. [email protected] such as the anime Evangelion; most —George Lei —Chris Conway
THE PEAK February 27, 2006 OPINIONS Editor's Voice IF Too ROASr'EM IBT controversy Sic* of THt ^LL IN A FONDVE POT SURE BET THEY'LL ' The issue of a for-profit international student recruitment agency known as COMPLAIN ALoT. IBT (International Business and Tech• nology Education Ltd.) coming to SFU hasn't gone away yet. In fact, it's been addressed by the Times Colonist, The Globe and Mail, and editorialised in The Vancouver Sun. Amanda Why is the issue so contentious? McCuaig I think the Times Colonist got it right News Editor when they said the original mission of universities to "instill in young minds the capacity for critical thought and pass on accumulated knowledge to the next generation" is being "rejected in 1 »• favour of a business model." it Is it any surprise, then, that The Vancouver Sun thinks that IBT is a glorious idea? To the idealists, students, teaching assistants, and to 0KCA BAY many professors, universities are still supposed to be places that harbour critical thought, and where the work we have done in terms of that critical thought gives us some form of prestige. Education is an attractive commodity because of CAMPUS VIEWS the prestige historically attached to it (an obvious fact), but if the reason it became prestigious (critical thought and knowledge) disappear in an effort to appease those who Lost in Quadrangle, send help! are willing to pay more ... then the prestige is gone. Can the administration successfully convince the com• If you're a late class is on the fifth floor of the AQ. So on 5N or 5S. If you started at the north munity of SFU that the IBT deal isn't jeopardising the starter/arriver like what does this really mean? It means side of the building when you were quality of our education? I am, then you'll that now you will either have to walk supposed to be at the south side, you It's going to be an extra hard sell now that the chair of identify with me up four flights of stairs from the third are now going to have to walk all the the board of IBT, Trevor Flugge, "has been named in evi• on how having floor or take the elevator that always way around the AQ and believe me, it dence presented to the Cole Inquiry into activities involv• classes in the Aca• takes too long. It means that you will takes more than a couple of minutes. ing certain Australian companies that were involved in demic Quadrangle have to get onto the elevator, stay in You pass department after department the UN Oil-For-Food Program in Iraq in the years leading is rather bother• the cramped little dwelling until the seemingly without end. up to 2003," (according to an e-mail sent out by VP Aca• Lien Yeung some. Let's set the fifth floor, get out, and decide which This could all be avoided if we were demic John Waterhouse). Associate scene: it's the first direction is your classroom in. It informed of which direction our class• The Cole Inquiry was put forward to find information about News Editor day of class and means that now you will definitely rooms in the AQ were during registra• the ties between the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) and the you're not really be extra late because you'll probably tion, assuming that it's the time that Iraqi government which undermined the UN Oil-For-Food in the mood to go to class yet. You have to walk all the way around the AQ most of us record our classroom num• Program, which was established to allow Iraq to receive hu• slooowly crawl out of bed, sloowly get to find your classroom. And it means bers. Neither goSFU nor the newspa• manitarian goods (eg. food, medicine) in return for oil. ready, and finally head out the door. you will walk into your first class of the per-like registration planner indicates Waterhouse emphasised in his e-mail that Flugge is in You're almost at the bus stop when semester and have your teacher look whether your classroom is AQ 5018N no way connected to the day-to-day functioning of IBT, you realise that you left your lunch at you pointedly and say, "Let's make a or AQ 5018S. Having such knowledge and had no connection to the company's "successful de• bag at home, so you obviously decide rule for this — don't be late!" beforehand can help a lot of students velopment as a leading provider of transitional education to head back for it to save the extra In the midst of all this, you think, why avoid outright embarrassing episodes for international students in Australia and elsewhere." five bucks for lunch. By the time you is it that your classroom always has to from teachers who are all about punc• Furthermore, "the persons who started IBT in 1994 return to the bus stop, all you see is a be the furthest point possible from tuality. The rooms in the AQ are all so are still active executives and [they're still] persons with trail of bus dust while you sadly wait where you've entered the AQ? The dif• small you could never just sneak in. whom we have liaised throughout the development of for the next bus. It's quite clear that ficulty and ambiguity in this lie in the My suggestion would be further re• this proposal." Waterhouse remains "confident of their at this point you will be late for class. fact that no one ever tells you which inforced by having all of the directories integrity and the ability of IBT to effectively deliver on its What you thought was extra time to direction your classroom is located on the third floor clearly indicate the obligations under the proposed agreement." dawdle around has now been rudely in: north, east, south, or west. I believe classroom numbers of floors above Regardless of Waterhouse's efforts to reassure mem• taken away. You pray that there will the reason behind all of this, besides along with whether they are north, bers of the campus community, many people are wor• be no further delays or complications the fact that I cannot tell direction east, south, or west. With this informa• ried about how relationships with a company who has a until you get to class. once I'm up on a mountain, is because tion, you could detour outside of the member attached to scandalous deals in Iraq are going to When you finally arrive at the it's generally not listed as reference building to quickly get where you need affect the reputation of SFU. Burnaby campus, you breathe a sigh for you. Unless you are already in the to be. If this solution seems too diffi• An amusing photo of Flugge holding a gun during his of relief until you take a look at your AQ, standing outside of the elevators, cult, the suggestion of a bridge across visit to Iraq can be found online by searching "Trevor list of classrooms and realise that your you'll likely not know whether you are or a tunnel under the AQ still stands. Flugge" in Google News. Beyond the quality of education and possible detrimen• tal effects to SFU s reputation, there is, of course, the issue Woohoo: Competition Boohoo: Sivtear cat*t>aisns of money. Approximately $600,000 in the first year, and IH IAS PI RE Finally, a new student newspaper HIASPIRE No, no, no. This is all wrong. This isn't around $10 million once IBT reaches its full potential, all that students can call a "pinko rag"! friendly competition anymore — this money that could be put back into SFU facilties. Hiaspire, produced and distributed is treason! There's an anonymous But it really speaks to broader issues about how privatisa• at SFU Surrey, made its debut poster from Surrey featuring the tion lets the government think there is no longer demand ! ! this month, featuring articles on slogan, "do you read the peak? i for public goods. If post-secondary institutions turn to : everything from news, student life, didn't think so," with the promise private companies for help, the government can get away ' ^ -' entertainment, as well as a whole of "something better" coming midr with not putting the funds into the programs — which, in lot of weird, unreadable text. But arbitrary, extremely February, perfectly coinciding with the release of Hiaspire's a sense, is how we got into this mess to begin with. Lack of distracting typography aside, this is awesome. Despite first issue. Such a treacherous smear campaign, especially since they also copied our theme of mountain-related funding lias left SFU at a loss to meet the demands the gov- our best efforts, The Peak has often been inadequate in representing the interests of Surrey students, chiefly names, can't be rewarded. Hiaspire, you are the Quebec of erninen! is giving it to raise the enrollment numbers and, because our staff and offices are located in Burnaby. the SFU student press, only instead of speaking French, you as such, create new classroom space. While The Vancouver So well played, SFU Surrey, and good luck to the staff speak "nonsensical layout." They claim that nobody reads Sun crilises the teaching association for being "ideological" at Hiaspire. Nothing inspires quality journalism like The Peak'}'Well, we will respond by not reading Hiaspirel and "socialist," they ignore completely the consequences competition, right? (Because it isn't distributed to Burnaby.) of letting public goods be privatised. —Mike Hingston —Mike Hingston
THE' PEAK OPINIONS February 27, 2006 ..TXT MSGS: Got something to say in 60 words A world without weapons or less? E-mail it or MSN It to [email protected] (it Look to natural order has been changed. That's nearly one for every 10 launched by Oxfam and Amnesty also serves as the The Peak's the person No longer are you equals — you people on this planet; add to that International, is pushing to col• MSN account), for e-mails next to you. are at the whim of the armed; the 10 bullets for each person, and lect one million faces of support Include TXT MSG in the subject Maybe you mercy of the gun. there's a deadly combination. for an Arms Trade Treaty. Such line. Submissions must Include know them; While it may be difficult to Lawlessness and conflict, fu• a treaty, so far endorsed by the your full name and your student maybe imagine as Canadians, for all too elled by the small arms trade, European Union and a number number. The Peak will not print submissions considered to be Alex Nataros they're a dis• many people worldwide, this is characterises current events in of other countries, would pre• tant acquain• the harsh reality of everyday exis• Haiti, Sudan, and countless re• vent countries like Canada and sexist, racist, or homophobic, tance or just a complete stranger. tence. Armed guards tote AK-47s gions globally. the U.S. from supplying arms to or attacks of a personal nature. Now imagine they have a gun. on every street corner, child sol• In Haiti, anarchy reigns, with an widespread violators of human Come to the After Hours Cafe at Out Maybe they're carrying it, maybe diers yield guns that stand taller AK-47 cheaper than most goods rights law (in times of peace) and On Campus starting Tues. February not. You don't know. than them while drugged by the international humanitarian law in the market. While a recent 28 from 6-9pm. Free snacks, latest cocktail, and men torment (in times of war). What thoughts go through your election casts a glimmer of hope, coffee and tea. Hang out, listen to mind? Is it fear? Intimidation? their wives at the barrel of a gun. everyday life continues to be And let's not kid ourselves. tunes, or pick your bum. Anybody Powerlessness? Somehow the 660 million guns worldwide. dominated by armed gangs and While the past year's Live 8 con• and everybody welcome! Located absolute poverty. A UN peace• certs and Make Poverty History just above the bus loop, near WMC. keeping force, which includes campaigns have focused on aid, Come on Out! some Canadians, is virtually trade, and debt, we stand little Weak = weak helpless. chance of "making poverty his• You: In Darfur, the western region of tory" and meeting the UN Mil• Euro looking cute guy, strawberry If only things yet to burn down American Sudan, crimes against humanity lennium Development goals blond hair, black and white sneakers who rides the 143 in the morning. were that sim• embassies, let alone even write — including systematic rape and unless we address the spiralling Me: ple. It's easy to a letter to The Peak complain• murder — characterised by many arms trade. How can farmers black hair, think you're sweet sit on one side ing in response to the various as genocide, have killed over displaced by conflict, women Coffee? of the coin, American media moguls' chal• 200,000 since 2003, and displaced raped at gunpoint, or children where the issue taken from schools and re• lenge to my "Anglo-Saxon cul• over two million people, includ• To blond chemistry boy: You got Sam Oliphant is crystal clear ture." Not to mention the vari• ing over 30,000 in the past month cruited to armies possibly begin on the #135 Wed. morning (Feb and it is obvi• ous cartoons published across alone. A government-backed and to address their own poverty? 22) and we chatted about current ous that these Danish cartoons the Muslim world depicting -armed militia, the janjaweed, And how can developing coun• courses. I've always wanted to tell were racist. Thank goodness Jews in less-than-acceptable has been terrorising civilians and tries help their own civilians you that you're really cute. Shahdin Farsai came through to ways. There goes her analogy... attacking displacement camps. when they continue to spend save the day ["More than a little and her only argument. Yet there's something strange billions on arms — instead of pissed off," February 20]. I'm so glad that Shahdin is at the about this. Neither Haiti nor health care, education, and Unstable Jazzaphobe seeks rosy In response to her first chal• point of shitting on free speech Sudan, nor many developing overall quality of life? cheeked PoMo noise chick for bankrobbirtg and laughing at the lenge of how North America while capitalising on it at the very countries, produce small arms Imagine a world without weap• elderly. Must be able to discuss the would react if tomorrow she same moment. Maybe one day, — any weapon that can be used ons. Where children are free to import of both Beckett and Bachlard printed Jesus Christ up in she will realise that in order to by an individual. Instead, they are play — in Canada, Sierra Leone, to the listening of Kinski. flames on the cross, I would fight a foe whose views are obvi• supplied by the world's wealthi• and Haiti; where women live Unprotected and" morally indecent likely react by saying, "What ously extreme and represent such est countries — the U.S., France, in equal partnership with their sex an absolute MUST. else is fucking new?" I wonder a minuscule fraction of the popu• China, Russia, Britain, and yes, husbands; where bread costs [email protected] if she has ever seen The Simp• lation, she need not stoop to the even Canada — an arms trade less than bullets. This world is a sons, South Park or even Conan same level. Alas, if the rest of us worth over $22 billion per year. dream. But it is a dream that we Sexy halfer junior momma looking O'Brien's mockery of Jesus "uninformed mass consumers" The Control Arms campaign, can make possible. for able-bodied freshman to shower Christ and everything Chris• could piece it together like Shah• in candies and love. Blondes tians consider holy. Sweep that din has, things would be so much preferred; Azns O.K. Please under the rug, I guess. I have simpler. I yearn for those days. email sexy_ha!fer_momma_ The ever expand• [email protected] ing search for a GRAD STUDENTS - Looking to meet cogent argument new people? Want tofind other s to Shock and awe chill/go out with? Email [email protected] for SFU'S newest I was shocked at the tone Shah• allowed Muslims to create a net• GRAD social club din Farsai chose to use for her work that communicates and has opinions article "More than influence over American politi• Are you bored, lonely, and in need pissed off" in last week's issue. cians (ie. the New York Times). candid of a new friend? I might be what Words of anger accompanied These leaders have also stated you're looking for. I'm 21, toned, with phrases of victimisation that this network may be one athletic, open-minded, respectful, and caring. E-mail me at will not enlighten your read• of the reasons that Muslims conversations [email protected]. ers, but only spread hatred and in America have not reacted violence. Your article is not only violently to the Danish car• What precautions should I take when attending a nude swim at an Damn you warren haas for fueling the fire that divides the toons. On the other hand, one indoor public pool? harassing a poor lass from class. Islamic world from the West, might argue that any Muslim Your writing is crass, and your brass but may also contribute to an protest in the U.S., peaceful Regardless of if you are clothed or not, swimming in a public pool is a pain in the ass. atmosphere of hate in our own can be hazardous. Public pools contain a certain balance of chemicals or violent, would fuel white (like chlorine) in order to keep them free of disease. Maintaining an — Sassy Lass university. I admit that the appropriate pH balance is very important for ensuring safety and American racism, further isolat• health of swimming pool users, as is filtering the water in the pool. If cartoons are distasteful and ap• ing Muslim communities. the concentration of chemicals is too high, the water can be preciate how one can find them dangerously acidic, and If the concentration is too low, bacteria, and There are two sides to every viruses will not be killed and can-spread from person to person. Most Last Wednesday, offensive, but conflicts that indoor public pools will have a person responsible for maintaining the story and most of the time, both pH and filters. If you are concerned about the safety of the pool, you 5th floor library (quiet study area). occur when people have differ• parties are right. I see our two can ask to speak to the director, or choose not to swim. You: talkative 3some: 2 Asian girls ent ideas are solved best through cultures, two different ideolo• (1 red top one black) & 1 white boy mediation, diplomacy, and com• gies, each clinging on to the val• (glasses & headphones). promise, not accusations and ues that they hold dear; freedom Me: attempting to write a paper. You Cacgirt Conversation give ycu non-judgmentai, straight forward and factual answcri spiteful words. of speech and respect of beliefs. yaur question*, auou rciatrarvjinp'i, sexuality, arret sexual rrealtri. Answers are cemn were not even doing group work. I by peer educators w tr the advice of Qualified neaitn professionals. I also thought it ironic that you When violence, whether verbal Got a question? Send your confidential question to [email protected]. hate you, you fucking bitches. Chat have quoted the U.S. as "the land or physical or written, is used to elsewhere. Flirt elsewhere. Get a health, counselling room somewhere where nobody of hypocrisy," when its "melting promote a view, there are only and career centre pot" characteristic, as per several losers. Don't make Hitler proud. has to listen to your inane chatter. Bitches. Muslim leaders in the U.S., has —Veronique Leblanc www.sfu.ca/hccc
THE PEAK 6 .February 27, 2006 OPINIONS More on Warren Haas It's not the cartoons So you think that your ability to Multiple group projects, ri• take five courses, work a part-time diculously time-consuming as• But what they symbolise job, get crunk on weekends, and signments, and countless hours still have enough time left over to hitting the books, all the while A lot of debate has taken place regarding the Although the United States has only recently gloat about yourself makes every• being under the stress of find• 12 cartoons that were published in a Danish moved towards George W. Bush's unilateral and one else lazy asses in comparison? ing a good coop placement for newspaper back in September, and even more "pre-emptive" doctrine, "The War on Terror," the Don't make me laugh. next semester — being meta• attention has been paid to the reaction of many U.S. has consistently violated the sovereignty of Have you ever spent 12 hours a phorically raped up every orifice Muslims around the world. The major problem Middle Eastern states long before the 2003 inva• week in a science lab doing ex• imaginable is all in a day's work with the debate, however, is that it has gener• sion of Iraq. periments and writing reports? for some of us. ally been taken at face value. What I mean by A compelling example is the U.S.-sponsored Have you ever had to spend Do we bitch about it? Hells yes. this is that a considerable amount of attention coup in 1953 to overthrow a democratically three consecutive weekends But come registration time, we al• has been given to the role of freedom of speech elected Iranian prime minister — Mohammad in a computer lab working on ways hand over the dough and ask and censorship in the controversy: the dominant Mossadegh, a social democrat bent on national• projects? Have you ever not gone for seconds. portrayal of the scenario has been that of pro• ising Iranian oil. Moreover, the U.S. has offered home from school for four days And don't give me that back-in- ponents of absolute freedom of speech versus economic and military support to authoritarian because it wasn't worth wasting my-parents' day shit: I was going those who promote responsible journalism, as states that do its bidding, from Saddam Hussein's the time to commute? Have you to school six times a week back if the primary grievance of the dissenters was Iraq in the 1980s to the contemporary regimes ever felt grateful to only have 15 when you were still learning what the physical and condescending depictions of of Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia. hours of classwork a week? 10+10 is. Prophet Muhammad. Although an image of any U.S. economic and military support for Israel Of course not, because you, So four years is the only "re• prophet of God is generally frowned upon in — which continues to brutalise the Palestinian my unhumorous editor, are what spectable" amount of time to Islam — especially ones that are disrespectful population by occupying the West Bank, Gaza, us "lazy" people like to call "the finish a degree? I'll try to keep and hateful — I am hardly convinced this is the and East Jerusalem (which contains al-Aqsa primary reason as to why so many Muslims have fucking arts student that doesn't that in mind in my fourth year mosque, one of the holiest sites for Muslims) reacted so passionately, and at times indeed vio• know what hard work is." as I work a well-paying coop — has only served to exacerbate a hostile image lently, against these images. You want to know what working job, knowing that when I do of the West in the Muslim world. hard at university really feels like? finally graduate in two more We need to get past the surface of the situa• Try doing the workload required years, I will have already estab• tion — the "freedom of speech versus censor• by a four-course semester of av• lished credibility in the indus• ship" paradigm — in order to better understand erage 3rd- and 4th-year science try with employers waiting to exactly why so many Muslims reacted in such a or computing classes. Better yet, snatch me up the moment the furious manner towards these seemingly benign PEAK spend a month — nay, a week robe comes off. cartoons. Specifically, we need to factor in con• — in the shoes of an engineering You make me sick. text. In doing so, we will be able to see that this student. Those kids are nuts. —Yang "A Lazy Damnass"Zhao reaction was not sparked by the actual cartoons themselves, but rather by what these cartoons were symbolic of, what they represented, and what they stood for for so many Muslims around the world. It is paramount to understand that these car• OUT toons were not circulated in a vacuum; they were not published (and re-published) in a just world •V: where everyone lives together in peace, harmony, European powers have also contributed, how• and equality. Rather, the context within which ever, to the curtailment of democracy in the Take the Summer Dn these cartoons were published was one in which post-WWII Middle East. For example, when Summer 06 at Capilano College the United States and Europe have exercised Islamists democratically won elections in the overwhelming global dominance, especially in early 1990s in Algeria, the ruling military estab• Make this a summer to remember - get a head start at the Muslim world. My key point is this: the mass lishment annulled the elections and France im• Capilano College's spectacular North Vancouver campus. Our reaction to the Danish cartoons is inherently mediately backed the regime. This then led to a wide range of summer programs and courses, friendly and connected to the stark reality of Western imperial relaxed atmosphere, and access to incredible outdoor activities civil war that has claimed hundreds of thousands make Capilano College the place to be this summer. dominance in the Muslim world. of Algerian lives. Moreover, it hardly needs to be Unfortunately, many people in the West are said that Britain was the U.S.'s staunchest ally in Creative Intensives extremely ignorant about the sheer amount of the illegal invasion of Iraq, despite the fact that Bringing together talented individuals in the coercive power their own proudly democratic a significant number of British and U.S. citizens fields of art, design and media, these highly countries have arrogantly exercised throughout opposed the impending occupation. creative programs allow you to explore and expand your skills under the guidance of the Muslim world. It is this lack of historical It is within this historical and colonial context truly inspiring instructors. knowledge of the role of Europe in the past cen• — the imperial activities of Britain and Fiance • Advanced Illustration Certificate tury that has resulted in many in the West seeing that did not exactly end after World War 11, U.S. • Advertising Certificate the publication of the Danish cartoons as being support for numerous authoritarian regimes, the • Animation Fundamentals Citation an expression of freedom of speech, rather than continuing Israeli occupation of Palestinian land • Computer Animation and Visual a crude display of Western dominance and tri- coupled with unflinching U.S. support for Israel, Effects Citation umphalism. and the occupation of Afghanistan and especially • Exhibit Design Certificate • Foundations in Illustration and A bit of historical background is essential to Iraq — that we need to understand the outcry of Design Certificate understanding the role, and hence the image, of so many Muslims against the Danish cartoons. • Magazine Publishing Certificate Creative yisu.'OAiivi^ciH INTENSIVES the West in the Muslim world in the past century. The depiction of the most beloved and respected Let's take as an example the Middle East, the human figure in Islam, Prophet Muhammad, as Summer Courses symbolic heartland of Islam. Following World being a terrorist with a dynamite stick stuck in Choose from a wide range of credit War I, Britain and France became the imperial his turban, represents a final and humiliating courses in: overlords of the Middle East through the man• smack in the face to many Muslims who have • arts and science (university transfer), date system. Although the inhabitants of the already had to experience their own countries robotics, business, legal studies, region continuously resisted and were eventually communications, fine arts, tourism, and peoples being subjugated to various forms wilderness leadership and more. able to achieve independence, these victories of Western rule. came at a huge cost of human life. For example, it Hence, in many ways the present outcry of is estimated that British and French troops killed Apply nOW - For details, visit our web site: numerous Muslims has little to do with issues of www.capcollege.bc.ca over 30,000 Arabs in the interwar era alone. With freedom of speech and censorship, as such oppo• the end of World War II, the United States rose as YOU Could Win! Registered students can sition is not essentially about the cartoons them• win one of three $500 tuition fee waivers. a major power in the region and, ever since, has selves, but rather what these images symbolise: been perceived by Muslims and Arabs as having the sheer power differential that exists between Capilano Campuses in North Vancouver, Sechelt and Squamish simply stepped into the imperial boots of Britain College British Columbia, Canada the West and the rest of the world, and the con• and France. This popular perception is not ex• sistent and shameless abuse of such power. 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Campus News on-campus New construction labours on Events Tuesday, February 28 Humanitarian Fair: Construction for sustainable building behind Strand Hall will create class and lounge space Your chance to find out what people and organisations all over the world are doing to fight poverty and injustice! Featuring oveclO humanitarian and social justice organisations. North AQ, 10:00-3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 1 Humanitarian Fair continues. North AQ. 10:00-3:30 p.m.
Amnesty International Film Festival: Showing Blood Diamonds Forever?, Arms for the Poor, and It takes a Child. Images Theatre 5:00-8:30 p.m., free.
Thursday, March 2 Nobel Prize in Physics: "Revolutions in Light Lecture" by Professor Paul Haljan, Department of Physics. Reserve by calling (604) 291- 5100 or e-mail [email protected]. Habour Centre, Segal Centre. 6:00-7:30 p.m., free.
Friday, March 3 "Know the medium": A behind the scenes look at how investigative documentaries are made. Presented by Meghan Maclver Justin Mah / THE PEAK in partnership with the Construction taking place outside the northeast area of the AQ will become new homes for the Arts and Social Sciences Departments. Communication Student Union. K866412:30-1:30 p.m. Ricardo Bortolon into a situation where the con• tracking just to catch up. When ASSC II, arts and social science 'The Digital Serf: Identity theft Associate Staff Writer struction resources out there we did ASSC I, we designed the and health science students have and security": have been tapped out. These big building entirely, with all the high hopes. However, as McCloy A lecture by Mark Poster, one These days, construction on architects, and then we started clarified, "Since it takes longer to projects like the RAV line and of the first academics to to build the whole thing. But build, it costs more to build be• campus is as common as fin• Olympic venues are sucking all provide critical commentary on gers pointing at Bertuzzi. One the life out of contractors so we with ASSC II, we're designing it cause the construction managers, the internet. Limited seating. major project that seems to be can't get anyone to work over- in sections, so we're designing the fencing, the washrooms, and Information: (604) 291-5100. getting stealthily accomplished the earliest part first — then the the trailers all have to be there Harbour Centre, Room 2270, (as stealthily as unbearably loud "We're trying to lead later parts, while the design is longer, so the cost keeps climbing 4 p.m., free. construction can be) is the new by example and build happening, they start building it. up. The original budget was $30 Arts and Social Sciences Build• So we're building it and we don't million; it is now $34.1 million Saturday, March 4 ings, which will lie east of the a green building." know what the final thing looks [for ASSC I]." Janet Wasco lecture on Education Building and north of Phil McCloy, like. We're going to say about four The reason for all the construc• Holleywood and the film industry Strand Hall. Development Manager of months over the time it would've tion is due to SFU's expanding entitled, "Back' to Basics: The section for the Arts and So• Campus Planning and taken us to build it, if we had it student body and demands from Movies and Money." To reserve: cial Sciences students (known as Development designed, then built. So this way, [email protected]. ASSC 1) was planned to be com• we're doing packages of design Continued on page 10 ^HarbourCentre, 7:30p.m., free. pleted by September 2006, but time; we can't line-up sub-trades and construction overlapping. with less than six months away, That's an abstract process." in the right order." WHO: Every student who cares about human rights it is easy to see why the project "Right now we got a bit of a late Optimistically, ASSC II may be THE OAr 01 SILCNCt sSudtfnli thr The other section for Health excellence for Western Canada for SfU. or anywhere your happen to be. The teitivttie* will be centred WHERE:*' Convocation Malt. \ / Science students (ASSC II), was forensics. There's going to be a lot slated for September 2007, but of research and technologies." 1JUUV* Collective bitertie makes a iUony statement. By remaining itlent, you »tt mm I • protesting the oppression of M'»ua! mtnurilies. and the tnju*te<. e» th.tt McCloy elaborated that ASSC II Originally priced at $30 million have resulted ftorrt hate. With educntiott and awarent1 », together, we tJiti Courtesy ot Development and Campus work to end the ".tr-ence. Planning "is a year behind and we're fast- for ASSC I and $41.5 million for THE PEAK 8 February 27, 2006 NEWS Club Spotlight In 1542, Portuguese sailors on their way to Japan came across an unidentified island. Amazed at the forested land, they shouted "Ilha Formosa," meaning "Beautiful Island." Thus the island became known as Formosa, which today we know as Taiwan. Formosa Cultural Club's Presi• dent, Lucy Fang, and executive, Joseph Pan, speak to The Peak. How did this club start? Justin Mah / THE PEAK The Formosa Cultural Club hosts a fun-filled mahjong seminar at the James Douglas Safe Study Area. In 1999 there were a group of f Taiwanese people who came together informally to organise events with each other. After a couple of years, they realised there was no formal club for Tai• wanese people to share in their S 2 » culture, so the club was officially formed in September 2001. «• « c What are the goals of the club? 11" °* -3 nop IN*" •3« = The club has several primary dji goals. We want to celebrate our *• £ E m, ^ • ^ «H ^^^^^ culture amongst fellow Taiwanese S|i-s people here at SFU, but at the same time we also want to pro• mote our culture to non-Taiwan• Is? ^ «B CD ' ese people. We also want to give _ ~0 back to the community through C? s ?s & We have several different types CD 01 -O p of events. We hold special events 2 g » 5 for occasions such as Chinese < ® -a — New Year. We also have events 1* » £ S c« g meant to promote Taiwanese re .O > >. ° >• Taiwanese expo, where we get a to C V> Q. at.11 g- number of Taiwanese sponsors « « e s J i«| to display products from Taiwan CO c » = c S bling and provide information on >• c \"**.. play competitively, and 20-30 Study our Grad Program: If you are a recent graduate, you may qualify for m — 5 = "S* people who come out just to play 5 » " g gt*D an allowance of $500 on a new Yaris CE Hatchback. Ask us for details. casually. It's meant to be a fun night for people to compete and socialise with each other. This year we're holding it at the James £ S Douglas Cafeteria on Friday, '"ttfeV ACCeSS o to £ u> ® TOYOTA March 3 at 4:30 p.m. . A nicer way to buy a cur. 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She went Associate Staff Writer to six different volumes, three on to explain that the French lan• in English and three in French. guage book history was "shaped As part of the President Lecture Volume 1: Beginning to 1840, was more by a sense of isolation, Series, Carole Gerson, a profes• published in 2004 and Volume 2: which gave way to greater protec• sor in the English Department of 1840-1918 was published in 2005. tion and self-sufficiency." SFU, offered students and faculty Finally, Volume 3: 1918-1980, the Michelle Levy, an assistant pro• insight into her current project, work Gerson is co-editing, is in fessor with the English Depart• co-editing the third volume of the production for 2007. ment, found these "two solitudes History of the Book in Canada. Ian Rocksborough-Smith, a for• and how that played out in book President Stevenson introduced mer Peak editor, suggested that history... really fascinating." Carole as a professor that "brings this is a "comprehensive history "In English Canada there's the ethos of SFU with her." project by bringing together dif• more penetration of Quebec lit• Book history is "an interna• ferent academic disciplines, it's erature and Quebec culture and tional area of academic study obviously a huge collaboration," not a lot going the other way," that has developed in the last 15 and is a valuable contribution to continued Levy. years . . . partly in reaction to the preserve Canada's heritage. "Further complicating the pic• proliferation of post-print media As Gerson explained, in order ture is Canada's national policy and dire predictions of the death "to trace the history of the book of multiculturalism that began to of the book," explained Gerson. in Canada, a continual pur• develop in 1960," which offered a Through book history, "at• suit of at least two narratives "re-conceptualisation of the na• tention to the role of print, in streams, one English and one tion," stated Gerson. constructing, maintaining, and French" is required. Due to Canada's shift toward deconstructing the many config• The English language book his• multicultural policies, writing urations and entity to which the tory has largely been shaped by the History of the Book in Canada name Canada has been applied," what Gerson referred to as the she added. "looming threat of intervention• Continued on page 11 The path you choose can make all the difference. Justin Man / THE PEAK SFU English Professor Carole Gerson lectures on her current project, Contact: • Professional Sales *** NOTE*** To retain parting for the Fait Semester, permits Tim Edwards, Associate Dean • Tourism Management MUST be renewed far the Summer Semester, 604-432-8898 Contact: A vehicle may tie rglstered la one account only... Heidi Surman 604-432-8293 Operations Management and I) Payment can be made by cash, debit, visa, mastercard, Information Technology money order or certified cheaae. Online renewals can be At BCIT we offer a unique blend of academic paid with visa or mastercard. • International Trade and Transportation* learning and applied skills - a different path 2 B-Lot Permits NOT renewed by March 31, 2006 will be • Information Technology Management* • of learning. For more information, visit ^jem/ to new and returning students through an OPEN ^relevant business degree required www.bcit.ca/admission/transfer/advanced Contact: 3) There will be an Open Sale for B-Lot/Reserved Parking Mary Tiberghien 604-432-8385 Apply now for Fall 2006 spaces that will take place on April 25th, 2006. This Parking is based on availability and sold on a first-come-first served basis. (Prior to sale check website for availability) 4 B-Lot Everyday But Wednesday Permits are NOT A VAILABLE or the Summer Semester. PARKING SERVICES A POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION teStiS® WMC 3110 (West Mall Complex) Web Page: www.sfu.ca/security/Parking Tet:29l-5534 E-MaH: parkingtasfu.ca THE PEAK 10 February 27, 2006 NEWS New classroom notable things of the designs is mental friendliness. "It's going to that they're all energy conscious. have a main concourse that will buildings The ASSC 1 will qualify for the join the bus loop to the AQ — a highest energy-saving category five-metre-wide covered walkway. Continued from page 7 of a building ... Our building will And it also joins to the deck of the save $40,000 per year in energy AQ so you'll be able to walk from the government of B.C. to open relative to a conventional build• (the bus loop) to the deck of the more student spaces. SFU is ing, and that's for the next 50 AQ on |the north) side. Right now, "presently at 84.5 per cent of the years. It's going to have a major people walk through the middle. space" needed. Both the Surrey landscaped courtyard in the So, they'll be able to walk [behind and Burnaby campuses are look• middle and the roof is going to be Strand Hall] as well. It opens up ing to expand about 750 students [grass-covered]. The live roof will an area with a nice view," stated each by 2007. "SFU will grow by help to cool the building and it McCloy. about one-third in the next five will absorb rain water." McCloy had more good news, years," according to a recent re• "Another thing we're doing is saying, "[ASSC I] will have a major port. (he pond, which is for catching atrium space in it that will be a There are high expectations for rainwater and storing that in a new lounge space for students, a ASSC 1 and II — the architects large tank in the courtyard under• place to gather and have events, Busby, Perkins & Will have also ground," he added. "When it gets sit around — an indoor space. built the Brentwood and Gilm- dry, the pond starts to evaporate The Renaissance Coffee that is ore SkyTrain stations, One Wall — the tank will fill the pond back nearby will get a new spot." Center downtown, and Revenue up. Also, the tank will be used for The new buildings look to be Canada in Surrey. Their lengthy irrigation for the landscaping, able to fulfill expectations and repertoire in Canada, as well as instead of drinking water for ir• please more than just the stu• internationally, displays sustain• rigation. We're trying to lead by dents using it. One other down• able architecture with warm example and build a green build• side after the price tag and noise spaces, providing ample natural ing." is that the construction has dis• light and ventilation. There will be advantages to the placed 500 parking stalls from Lot McCloy continued, "One of the buildings beyond its environ• C behind the bus loop. Changes to Campus Parking Campus commuters are experiencing rapid changes to their daily travel to and from work and classes. Since the introduction of the student U-Pass in September 2003, transit ridership has increased by over 48%; parking on campus is about to change just as dramatically. Necessary new structures, such as the Arts and Social Sciences building currently under construction, are already encroaching on surface parking lots. The neighbouring UniverCity residential and commercial developments will soon impact more of the existing parking space. Eventually, as the campus population evolves to its anticipated 26,000 constituents (the estimated stu• dent and associated faculty and staff populations in the year 2025), all surface parking will disappear to make way for new infrastructure. In anticipation of more commuters and less parking space, the campus requires a new parking manage• ment system, with mitigating actions beginning in the very near future. "We need to get bigger, and at the same time, conserve space. We need to prioritize the highest aca• demic standards, yet facilitate accessibility to the campus. We need to balance the urgency of these Juslin Mali / THE PEAK needs against the cost of supplying them," states vice president Pat Hibbitts in a message to students, The new ASSC I building will save $40,000 per year in energy costs faculty and staff. relative to a conventional building. The challenge for university strategic planners is to re-design the current parking system to match new fa cilities, and finance the project in a plan that considers the needs of current and future campus commut• are you ready ers. Campus Security and Parking Services in conjunction with Campus Planning and Development have commissioned a Parking Management Plan (PMP) to address strategies to accomplish these goals. TO GET AROUND? with amazing "round the world" packages exclusive to STA Travel! The PMP reviews the current parking system and fee structure, the schedule for the loss of surface park• ing on campus, and the cost of suitable replacement parking facilities. It projects the demand for parking in the future, considering the unique aspects of SFU's mountaintop location along with society's general trend towards the reduction of greenhouse gasses, and recommends a schedule to replace parking facili• Urban Nomad: ties in an appropriate balance. Vancouver » London // Rome » Bangkok // Singapore » Los Angeles » Vancouver Recommendations in the PMP address the cost effectiveness of temporary and permanent replacement options, comparative fee structures, and a strategy to maintain the targeted level of service. Based on from $2149 the cost of replacement parking structures, the PMP outlines a parking fee increase program, which amortizes the cost over the next 17 years in order to avoid burdening either present or future students, The Long Way Home: faculty and staff with more than their fair share of the expense. 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Destinations separated by ir denote overland travel between the two points not included in the Tuesday February 28th - West Mall, across from Raven's Cafeteria 3 (but we're ready with some very cool suggestions). Wednesday March 1st - AQ South, just below Audio Visual STAQ23I1I I www.statravel.ca Anyone wishing further information can contact Kathy Ulmer, Manager Security Ancillary Operations, Cam pus Parking and Security, at 604-291-3919. (888) 427.5639 THE PEAK NEWS February 27, 2006 11 Campus News Book history Continued from page 9 Top notch alumni awards also has the "desire to attend to the print activity of many immi• Margo McQueen Dunnet and in doing so, increased their tivity about First Nations issues. ing short of amazing." grant communities," Gerson said. Associate Staff Writer charity foundation many times During this time, she founded The last recipient of the eve• In trying to maintain all forms over. Cordoba said, "SFU gave the Elder Assisted Hearings at ning was Terry Beech for the of print, "all of our volumes at• The 2005 Outstanding Alumni me my two most valuable skills the NPA. In her speech, Louis Outstanding Student Leadership tend to some disposable reading Awards, held last Tuesday, were for business: time management reflected on her early years spent Award. Beech has one more year material," said Gerson, an exam• an inspirational evening cel• and project management skills." in a residential school. "From a to go of his business adminis• ple being the inclusion of "Coles ebrating some of SFU's finest Daniel Igali, BA '01, was the child who was told she was too tration degree, and yet he has notes — A Canadian invention." achievers. most eloquent of the winners dumb to do anything, to where already accomplished so much. Using the case of L.M. Mont• The awards took place at the that evening. Igali received the I am now, this has been quite a Straight out of high school, gomery's, specifically the story Four Seasons Hotel downtown, Athletic Achievement Award. He journey," she said. Despite hav• Beech ran for Nanaimo City of Anne of Green Gables, Gerson with a ballroom filled with 300 won the Olympic gold medal ing endured hardships, her out• Councillor and won. During his highlights the tension of book guests ready to wine, dine, and in wrestling in 2000 in Sydney, look focuses on "having an open three-year service, he completed history being the "interplay be• toast the accomplishments of Australia. Since then he has heart, even with those you don't a Professional Certificate in Pub• tween nationalist goals and inter• the five winners. created the Igali Foundation to like." Louis currently volunteers lic Administration at Capilano national reality." After the requisite schmoozing help youth in developing nations for numerous organisations, too College with a GPA of 4.33. In She concluded her lecture with among alumni in the foyer, the achieve their dreams. "The first many to name here. 2004, he was a finalist for the the question, "To whose book his• guests were led into dinner by call of duty has been to set up a Dr. Milton Wong, LLD '98, won Rhodes Scholarship. During his tory does Montgomery belong? To a member of SFU's world-class school, because as we all know the 40th Anniversary Award for acceptance speech, Beech said that of Canada, where she lived bagpipe team. Margaret Gal• educating minds is the best thing Service to the University. Wong his success stemmed from being and set her story ... to that of lagher, host of CBC's The Early you can do for any society," said was elected Chancellor of SFU in "surround by amazing people the U.S. where she was first pub• Edition and an SFU alumna, Igali in his thank you speech. 1999 and served two consecutive who believe in me." lished ... to that of Japan where graciously emceed the event and Igali came to Canada from Nige• terms. He has been key to many It was a common refrain among she is read in school... ?" regaled the audience with fond ria for the 1994 Commonwealth of the initiatives at the university all the award winners that they For Cheryl Siegel, a librarian memories of her SFU days. Games in Victoria and made the — the most prominent being would not be where they are with the Vancouver Art Gallery, The first award of the evening decision to stay without knowing his dedication to relocating the today without their strong fam• the story is Canadian. "The same went to Mike Cordoba, BBA '88, anyone there. School for Contemporary Arts ily, friends, and coworkers to way that Huckleberry Finn is for professional achievement. Kathy Louis, BA '74, was hon• into the historic Woodward's support them. The Outstanding American, even though we read it Cordoba worked his way up to oured with the award for Service building in downtown Vancou• Alumni Awards started in 1983 in Canada," she said. CEO of Boston Pizza Interna• to the Community. Louis worked ver. Michael Stevenson, presi• to recognise the exceptional Perhaps, as Gerson suggested, tional. He made them the top ca• for the National Parole Board for dent of SFU, has said, "The range achievements done by some of much of Canada's book culture sual dining restaurant in Canada, 25 years, bringing cultural sensi• of his influence on SFU is noth• the 85,000 SFU alumni. has long been global. should come and check out what is the subtle law of karma. In So you are what you eat? you do? this way, if done correctly, eat• Yes, I would definitely agree you Campus Celebrity ing becomes a health science. are what you eat. The thing about the Veggie Compiled by Wendell Challenger Lunch program is that it provides Unlike Fight Club, there is only It starts the day before the an atmosphere of relaxation and rule at the SFU Veggie Club —you lunch. 1 go and shop for the a place to meet each other. Many must tell everyone about Veggie ingredients, which takes me groups come with their friends Club. The club has been putting approximately one and a half and relax over vegetarian food. on veggie lunches for over 11 years hours. After which I do the Sometimes there are even people now, yet the lunches remain al• preparation work, such as cut• playing the piano. Basically, it's a most as distant to many people as ting vegetables. This adds an ad• place you can come to relax and the fictional underground fight• ditional three hours. Then on the check out the food. ing ring. So today we are going day of the lunch I have to get up I also need to make an impor• to get dirty, get behind the scenes, at around 3 a.m. to start cooking. tant point here about the cook• and break down those barriers to In total, it takes about six hours ing. I take great care in following introduce you the tower of power of cooking, after which it takes the teaching of Krishna, for which behind it all, the Veggie Lunch me another half an hour to drive there is a science of cooking. dude. the lunch up to campus. Western cooking may or may not know this, but there are six tastes: Where and when does it all hap• Wow, that is a lot of work. What sweet, salts, sour, bitter, hot, and pen? motivates you to keep going? astringent. The lunch is every Tuesday and I find there is a great demand Astringent? Thursday, 12:00 to 2:30 p.m. in for vegetarian meals here; it's a the Forum Chambers, below the demand that never goes away. By Astringent is like what hap• Higher Grounds Cafe. The lunch fulfilling this demand I get great pens when you eat walnuts or is $5 by donation and you can job satisfaction, I find everyone parsimon fruit, it sucks in your also help yourself to seconds. who comes to the lunch is greatly mouth. This science of cooking appreciative. I find I enjoy the follows Ayurveda, a branch of So who can attend? Is there like exchanges I have between the Vedic medicine — Vedic means an RSVP kinda thing going on? students, staff, and myself. It from the Vedas, an embodiment makes it easier to come up here of knowledge from India. Things Nope, everyone is welcome, re• every week. like meditation and yoga all come gardless of whether or not you are from the Vedas. a vegetarian. In fact, I encourage How long have you been doing Anyway, those six tastes to• the non-vegetarians to come out, this? gether form a complete meal. as it provides variety and food Each spice helps your health. choice options to them. The lunches themselves have Some are antiseptic, helping to been going on for around 11 cleanse your blood. Basically, While in attendance I have no• years. I have been doing it for six, each herb was made to cure the ticed how much food you bring. going on seven now. body of different diseases. What So what kind of preparation time you eat affects you, you inherit Wendell Challenger / THE PEAK are we talking about here? What are the main reasons people characteristics of the food, it Ghosh, serving up some veggie lovin'. THE PEAK 12 February 27, 2006 NEWS B.C. News despite increased funding, less money is going to student assis• Provincial budget offers little to tance now than in 2003-04. On the positive side, they said the "future looks promising" in post-secondary students terms of creating more spaces for students. Bryna Hallam when the Liberal government but said they were looking for "a CUFA/BC issued a report card Other spending includes one• CUP British Columbia Bureau ended a six-year freeze on tuition more comprehensive strategy" to on the government's post-sec• time investments to create a new Chief fees. Average tuition fees in B.C. address the issue. ondary performance; they earned World Centre for Digital Media are $4,874 for 2005-06. According to MacLeod, en• grades in the C to B+ range. Education and a new Natural VICTORIA, B.C. — The B.C. The budget features a total of rolment at colleges in B.C. has The group also criticised the Resources and Applied Science government's new budget focus $161 million in new funds for declined over the past few years, government for its failure to de• endowment. Funding for those on children does not extend to post-secondary education over and completion rates of skilled velop an effective student finan• projects totals $50 million and post-secondary students. the next four years. Of that, $145 trades and apprenticeship pro• cial assistance system to increase $40.5 million respectively. Released on February 21, the million is additional operating grams are down 44 per cent since access to education, noting that Canadian University Press budget "has some good news for funding to help create 25,000 new 2001 — trends she attributes to students, but not a whole lot for student spaces by 2010. increased tuition. students overall," said Lisa Ma• The government is also focus• "I think it's a pretty clear paral• cLeod, B.C. chairperson of the ing on increasing skills training. lel to draw," she said. "Tuition MISSING Canadian Federation of Students. "We have listened to the calls of fees are going up, enrolment is Among the good news, said industry to offer more creative in• declining, and so we really need BRENDAN & JOE? MacLeod, is an increase of about centives to encourage skills train• the government to do something $26 million in core funding and ing," said Finance Minister Carole to create access." COME JOIN WITH THEIR FAMILIES & FRIENDS maintenance of a cap on tuition Taylor during the budget speech. Other groups, notably the Con• fee increases to the rate of infla• "So today, Budget 2006 allocates federation of University Faculty MEMORIAL SERVICE tion for the remaining three years $90 million in tax credits over Associations of B.C. and the Feder• FOR of the Liberals' term. three years to encourage business ation of Post-Secondary Educators "We were hoping for a reduction to be part of the solution, and of B.C., have echoed that view. BRENDAN MIDGLEY AND JOSEPH STRYJAK in tuition fees, but it's a good sign help [the] government meet the Cindy Oliver, president of FPSE, Tuesday February 28 that they've made a commitment challenge of training our work• expressed her disappointment 12:30 PM to [the cap] and they've attached force — in both our traditional in the budget, saying "the most Convocation Mall some funding to it," she said. sectors and emerging industries." disturbing part of this budget for Tuition fees have nearly dou• MacLeod acknowledged the post-secondary students is the ab• THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA AT SFU bled in the province since 2001, need for more skilled workers, sence of any help for students." ilfiiaiSSiSJa •when we do your student taxes Nrt « vaM coupon Get a coupon for a ^ medium Domino's Pizza with student tax preparation. Come in today or call 1-800-HRBLOCK H&R BLOCK THE PEAK Don't Touch! 1 2 3 4 5 I 12 13 14 16 18 19 10 34 Rat Rotten Hut 35 Islamic festival 20 I2"2 123 37 Vancouver-based org. opposed to military presence in 24 ;26 27 Afghanistan 38 Landmass extending from 28 Gibraltar to the Arctic Circle 39 Don't touch the practice run! 33 34 43 Force into bondage 44 Sporting dimples? 45 Gene Chandler's dukedom? 46 Don't touch Google! 47 Airport info 49 Jerry Seinfeld or Albert Einstein, for example 50 True, to a programmer 52 Marching band headwear 53 Don't touch the prime minister! 54 Sub sense? 55 Italian masses? 56 Breakfast lane? 57 Snooped 59 Approx. 77 78 75 76 61 Rapidly decline 66 Don't touch the pointy shoe! 85 67 Ear-related prefix 68 Online place for discussion: 90 abbr. 71 Is a necessary and sufficient 98 condition for 75 More secure 104 76 Organic compound category that includes lidocaine and EDTA 77 Ellipse or parabola 116 78 What bagpipes and tromboons have in common 79 Three fourteenths of a sonnet, 120 in a way 81 Currency common in 38 Down, 129 naturally 82 Despite, poetically 133 83 Serpentine fish 86 Properly 141 89 Media analysis, to a 14 Down 91 Short and fat 145 94 French military cap 95 Nine Inch Nails song covered by Johnny Cash Across "Chuis tanne" 102 Lung-enclosing membrane 148 Leche traditional 96 " you ready?" 51 This might get you a tit! 104 VCR buttons Spanish dessert 97 Conservation org. created in I With 140 Down, 52 Strain of Hobbits from which 105 Extorts 1905 command that explains the Gollum descended 107 Particle accelerator at CERN Down 101 Final: abbr. puzzle's theme 54 Reach dismantled in 2000 103 School between college and 6 Quantum physicist 58 Main event, to a gastronome 109 Belgian city ruined in World War I 1 Start of an Arnold catch phrase baccalaureat associated with the delta 60 Ridge, as on the tongue or 110 Fourth-innermost of Jupiter's 2 Like some committees 106 Shifty object? function palate moons 3 Plato's laws? 108 Birthplace of Michel Foucault II Star-shaped flower 62 Item before a queue? 111 Don't touch Stephen Hawking! 4 Amusingly odd .110 Accumulate 16 These might be high or low 63 Aglio's partner 115 Don't touch the hamper! 5 Bishop's jurisdiction 111 Throwback 20 Are besotted with 64 " are ye wordy o' a grace 119 Goodnight (U.S. folk 6 Legislator 112 Famous King 21 Swelling, as of an organ (U.S. / As lang's my airm" (Burns) standard) 7 "Misunderestimate," "terror," and 113 "Sure" spelling) 65 Imperturbable 120 Sound in the scene described "I appreciate ..." for Bush 114 Enlarge: abbr. 22 Country between Cote d'lvoire 69 Where a klutz might find a 58 in 69 Across 8 Put your foot down? 115 What crossword solvers do! and Togo Across? 122 Style of poetry in 146 9 Off 116 Enriched, in a greasy way 23 Boisterous play 70 Haunted house's quality Across's domain 10 Skullcap 117 Japanese word literally 24 Average guy's last name? 72 Roman's name? 124 Don't touch the favourite 11 Blazing meaning "thing that is worn" 25 Polite 73 Four-stringed guitar student! 12 " , right!" (Wayne's World 118 Semiotician Umberto 26 Don't touch the abattoir! 74 Good-natured 129 Freedom, in Swahili saying) 120 Gilgamesh's land 28 U.S. rock band responsible for 75 Pelvic bones 130 "Hurry!" 13 Greek letter often used to 121 Lighthouse, in French Parabola 80 Don't touch the Scottish beast! 131 Suffix indicating rough denote the golden mean 123 Logical stepping-stone 29 Voluminous hairdo 84 Unburdened similarity 14 Dilbert, eg. 125 mortis 30 Guest's bed? 85 Unicellular blobs 132 Shakespearean schemer 15 Snitch 126 Freddie Mercury, for one 32 Long lunar depression 87 Excel, for example 133 Don't touch the '60s dance! 16 Make it 127 Discharge 33 Don't touch the critical 88 Each 138 Urge forward 17 "Calm down!" 128 Last two words of Canada's weakness! 90 Painting and poetry, as opposed 140 Shrek and others 18 Peer-to-peer file sharing motto, in English 36 Made a violent exit, with "out" to pottery or puppetry 141 Southernmost Canadian lake software 134 Are in the red 40 Murally overgrown, perhaps 92 Wrath 142 Poor man's coach? 19 1994 movie that spawned 135 One who heads 128 Down? 41 Loved, in Trois Rivieres 93 Mugs 143 Marshmallow-based snack the catch phrase "Pop quiz, 136 U.S. wei qi soc. 42 Don't touch the loot! 94 Mongolian ruler 144 Jazz choreographer Bob hotshot" 137 Infant 44 Don't touch the dairy! 98 Erec's wife, in Arthurian legend 145 Tear violently 27 Idle, the half-bee, and others 139 Loc. 48 Common songbird 99 Gomez's cousin 146 One of the Muses 29 U.S. disaster relief org. 140 See 1 Across 49 Dialect in which you'd hear 100 Asleep 147 Ponderous 31 In favour of —Timothy Mott THE PEAK Debby Reis [email protected] 14 February 27, 2006 _M» * * * A. J 604-291-4630 L V^/ JL V 1 J V^/ phone \fte relentles s THUNDER BAY, ON. — "Emo." What mere sentence can describe the sheer power hidden behind those three little letters? Some would say "emo" holds the power of life and death. Others would blame It for emasculating and destroying an entire generation of young people. The majority will scratch their heads, furrow their brows, and with a puzzled glint in their eye, ask, "just what in the hell Is emo, anyway?" As always, the truth is punks versus Quincy punks founded in 1987) gave equal stranger than fiction. Join us became increasingly frequent time to melody and emotional now on an odyssey into the both in California and on the catharsis. By the early 1990s, the very heart of darkness — or, East Coast. ancestral form had begun to be at least, songs about juvenile In 1985, two distinguished known as emo-core (short for angst — as we unveil the mys• members of the hardcore "emotional hardcore"). Already, tery, "What is emo?" scene, Ian MacKaye (one of the D.C. emo was beginning to Emo: Punk music on the pioneers of the "Do-It- splinter. In San Diego, emo was estrogen. (As defined at Yourself" punk ethos) and Guy reverting to its emotionally vol• urbandictionary.com) Picciotto, decided the hardcore atile roots in a new form called Our story begins back in the scene's style and emphasis on screamo. In the Bay City Area 1980s, after the mutation of pointless violence had become of California, bands such as the first wave of punk rock into stifling. MacKaye's group, Em• lawbreaker were merging emo hardcore punk, defined by D.C. brace, and Picciotto's Rites of and pop-punk, a trend which club-promoter Stephen Blush Spring took hardcore in a new would become more prevalent as "punk rock adapted for sub• direction, inspired by the Min• over the years. urban teenagers" in his book nesota hardcore group Hiisker "I've been told emo songs are American Hardcore: A Tribal Dii — merging thrashing guitar deep, History. and screaming with melodies Which translates into really Faster and more intense lifted from folk, blues, and weak! than the initial late 1970s punk 1960s pop. The Washington, All they ever do is cry, rock bands (the Clash, the Sex D.C.-based sound of MacKaye Did something get caught in and Picciotto began influ• Pistols, et cetera), elements of their eyes?" encing almost a dozen other hardcore punk cross-fertilised (from Anti-Flag's "Indie Sux, groups, many of which were thrash metal in California. Hardline Sux, Emo Sux, You signed to MacKaye's Dischord The hardcore scene, in addi• Suck," 1996.) Records. The new sound had tion to an anti-fame aesthetic, As emo-core spread along become a movement. And like became stigmatised by a repu• the underground independent all movements, it needed a tation for violence. scene (later to be known as name. While somewhat exaggerated "indie") and over the internet in popular media by the popu• In a 1985 interview with through the early 1990s, it lar television drama Quincy, Flipside magazine, members was inevitable that emo ME, moshing intensified of Rites of Spring said that their and indie rock would within the hardcore scene, and fans had, for some reason or cross-fertilise. In 1994, violent confrontations between other, begun calling the new the band Sunny Day "Quincy punks" and other music "emo" as an abbrevia• Real Estate scored a concert-goers, Quincy punks tion for "emotion." Whereas the hit with their album and police, and ancestral hardcore had empha• Diary, drawing Quincy sised anger and noise, the new greater promotion music (including MacKaye's and support from their band Fugazi, record label and popularis• ing the genre. To the uninitiated who had been turned onto emo by Diary, this — and not the ancestral emo-core — was emo. Nominal recognition of the actual lineage was given by the corre• sponding labels "hard- c o r e emo" and "indie- emo" for the respective older and newer genres, but "emo" THE PEAK FEATURES February 27, 2006 15 of 'efi&o' was now identified with the new rock and progressive rock. Emo This can also take a homopho• same can be indie-rock hybrid. became even more popular in the bic slant. Another widespread said for the Throughout the midwestern early 2000s, as the band Dash• perception of the emo movement vast major• United States, particularly board Confessional steered emo is that, due to its tolerance of ity of peo• the states of Kansas, Illinois, in a more poppy direction — to• non-traditional masculinity and ple, who Arizona, Colorado, and Texas wards teen love (awww). its cultural position as the oppos• gravi• — not to mention the emo By this point, the definition of ing pole to "jock" manliness, the tate homeland of California and "emo" had become so nebulous emo scene has a disproportion• the East Coast states of Massa• that practically any indie-rock ate component of homosexual chusetts and New York — emo band whose lyrics emphasised and bisexual males. Whether bands arose and further spread melody and emotion (such as or not this is accurate, it is the new sound. Hybridisation My Chemical Romance) were de• not uncommon for males of indie and emo continued scribed as "emo." perceived as "emo" to be to the point that the line be• "It's the year 2004 and nobody derided as "emo fags." tween the two was increasingly knows what's cool anymore! Drift A less venomous varia• blurred. Emo style — tradition• aimlessly from one social trend tion on this slur is to ally a quasi-punk look of dark to the next as you eventually describe emo follow• clothes, piercings, and dyed find yourself converging to the ers as metrosexuals; hair — turned towards the indie ultra-hip world of box-framed as one definition on urbandictionary.com fashion of thrift-store cloth• glasses and studded belts known towards states, "the line between the ing, small t-shirts with random as 'EMO.' You have dyed-black identifying two is somewhat blurred, though prints, horn-rimmed nerd hair that is engineered to look themselves through both groups claim to be in touch glasses, and Converse sneakers. messy, but it's not spikey enough the clothes they wear and the Independent bands that had music they listen to (prep, jock, existed long before emo were surfer, hippie, tough guy/gal, becoming lumped into the emo A further element of this stereotype is the exhibitionist, eccentric). But the category, the textbook example perception that "emo kids" are so emotion• emo trend is mostly seen from the being Weezer's 1996 album outside as a homogeneous move• Pinkerton. ally disturbed that they perform self-mutila• ment, despite the many overlap• Emo, and my The increasing success of emo tion or attempt suicide. As an anonymous ping influences: hardcore punk, drunkenness had led me led to members of the move• witticism on one website has it, "I wish indie rock, and folk music. straight into the lion's den. When ment being courted by, first, indie How exactly the Austin, Texas I realised what I was actually see• labels, and later in the 1990s by my grass was emo so it would cut itself." nightclub and band venue, Emo's, ing, I had to go to the bathroom major labels seeking a lucrative fits into the emo scene is an open to puke. Literally. I puked in the new market. Further attention question. According to their web• urinal. It was terrible. A bunch of came in 1998 when Teen People to be punk. You wear a skin-tight with their emotional side." site, the name is merely a coin• idiots dressed in old striped shirts, magazine dubbed emo the "hip" v-neck argyle sweater and black Another common stereotype cidence, as it was opened in the cardigans all around me, stupid new style. Between the major converse shoes — an amalgama• regarding emo folk is that, due 1990s by "a guy named Emo." Of high water pants, '50s-style non• labels and increased media cov• tion of old and new. You are a to their preference for emotion• course, any youth-oriented venue prescription glasses, studded belts erage, many emo bands walking paradox. You are EMO." ally overcharged music which which plays live music will, by ne• . . . I wanted to punch each and turned to (From Maddox's "Video Games dwells on breakups and loss, and cessity, play contemporarily popu• every last patron of this establish• pop- You'll Never Play" at thebestpage the prevalence of black clothing lar music, and one would assume ment right in the gut." intheuniverse.net). and eyeliner, "emo kids" are that many of the bands booked at In a 2002 Maxim interview, mu• The emo backlash is multi- either clinically imbalanced or Emo's will be, by someone's defini• sician and comedian Jack Black layered and is at least socially maladjusted. When a tion or other, "emo." Which may described purchasing an album partially rooted in tra• poster on an internet forum has account for the following account by an Austin, Texas band called ditional machismo. been judged to be ranting ex• by "Bart" at ubersite.com: "the Fuckemos" "When I was in Much of the dis• cessively about their like of emo, of personal life course, lies or appears in the emotionally unstable, a because common de• he believed it nunciation is was a Spanish something along word which just hap• the lines of "Don't Austin, pened to resemble the cry, emo kid." A further element I stumbled into that famous joint ultimate English-language pro• of this stereotype is the per• called 'Emo's' while I was messily fanity. He was crestfallen to find ception that "emo kids" are so music drunk. Now, I really didn't mean that the group's name was, in fact, emotionally disturbed that they itself to. I didn't really know where I was. intended to mock Emo's. Whether perform self-mutilation or at• — which is Hell, I could barely see straight. I or not this hatred extends to tempt suicide. As an anonymous not to everyone's was just looking for a place to get "emos" remains to be seen. witticism on one website has it, taste, and stereotyped as another beer. I've always hated Canadian University Press "I wish my grass was emo so it over-emotional and weepy. In would cut itself." turn, the songwriters are derided as effeminate and juvenile, lack• Like most other youth sub• By ^JbJI PzcWo ing in virile self-control. One of cultures, the basic line of emo's the most common denunciations detractors is that its followers are towards those perceived as "emo" sheep in search of a pre-manu- Aligns (t*kclte«d UniVersity) will be "be a man" or "grow up." factured identity. Of course, the THE PEAK Kevin Lalonde [email protected] 16 February 2006 ARTS 604-291-4630 Music Not so alone after all Winston sways some hips at the Media Club Justin Mah Headed by Ryan Hauschild level, allowing them to continu• Peak Editor (vocals, guitar, piano), the band ally and innovatively reinvent caught my attention straightaway themselves with each song. To Winston played The Media Club with its soaring, harmonic, and intangibly articulate the Win• on February 17, and will play the dynamic vocals/instrumcntals ston experience: it's as if we Railway Club on March 10. which appealed to the inner cata• are led by a maternalistic hand combs of myself where pathos across the interstices of a bro• 1 first saw local indie-rock tal• resides. While Winston evokes ken soul. Their songs draw you ent Winston back in 2003 at artists such as Coldplay, U2, and in, embrace you, and then spit the Media Club. They were in Sloan, the band doesn't ever suc• you out like a bird feeding its Justin Man / THE PEAK the midst of releasing their first cumb to the musical tenets of any young — jarringly but with love. Winston busts out another face-melting, gut-busting solo at the album, Passengers, which un• of these mainstream bands, nor "Lonely," a song about someone Media Club. abashedly uses the sound of a does Ryan seek to incite without coming home to their loved one TransLink SkyTrain to jumpstart feeling the necessity to do so and finding them with another, the audience with songs off of audience as well. the first track into musical mo• from within. for instance, cradles the body their newly recorded sophomore Winston manages to create tion. Upon its release, the album Though Winston enters cliche- with its soft piano chords and album to be released later this lush, atmospheric songs that elicited a positive response from ridden territory by exploring swooning ambience. The song is spring. Songs like "Denim," with seem all-encompassing. Dwelling both listeners and music crit• the social-ills of love, malaise, also notorious for seduce tears its melodic hooks and genuinely on universal themes, the band's ics; The Province (December 28, and angst, the band manages out of the most impervious in• sung lyrics, left many of us trans• songs disarmingly hit home on 2003) even named them as one to avoid these perils by explor• dividual. fixed and with our heads and feet a very personal level. We are en• of its top-10 local acts — the Be ing the medium of sound with Two weeks ago I had the chance uncontrollably swaying and tap• ticed during a live show into re• Good Tanyas and Hot Hot Heat a certain immediacy and en• to see Winston again at the Media ping. Another song off of the new flecting upon our own moments being others that made the list. gaging with it on an intuitive Club. This time they tantalised album, "Cold Feet," opens softly of loneliness under a collective and detachedly until the drums setting, and are ultimately eased suddenly roar in and subsume when we find out that we are you in the process. Before start• not so alone after all. There's no ing the number, Ryan engages the doubt that seeing the band live Reviews audience in conversation, men• is a rejuvenating experience, and tioning that he'll be getting mar• as such, it's just a matter of time The rest of the album is altcr- the Moon (from which "Love ried in the summer, and clarifies before the band gets the recog• natingly schlocky piano fodder Fool" hails), you will be pleas• that the song, for him, is his com• nition that they deserve; until ("Three Flights Up") and formu• antly surprised by their 2005 ing to terms with this imminent then, you'll find Winston play• laic three-minute guitar enemas release, Super Extra Gravity. transition. And, in giving himself ing around Vancouver with their ("Down On My Head"). These are The 11 songs on this CD are fully and openly to his music hearts on their sleeves. the kinds of songs so predictable unique and enjoyable while under the limelight, he created an Check out winstonmusic.com you can sing along to them the retaining a similar sound, thus, aura of openness for those in the for songs and tour dates. first time you hear them. if you like the first single, "I Yellowcard Maybe my favourite part is Need Some Find Wine and You, Lights and Sounds the lyrics, where singer/guitarist You Need to be Nicer," you are (Capitol) Ryan Key seems overwhelmed by likely to be fond of them all. CJSF 90.1 FM everything. 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But after one The Cardigans nobody could win." 20. *Aids Wolf, The Lowers LP (Loverpump United) look at the band-aid and tapcd- Super Extra Gravity The Cardigans' album con• back-together photo on the (Universal) sists of a selection of melodies *denotes Canadian Artist album cover, it's clear this is no highlighting a folk-rock charm, Happily compiled by Ed Blake OK Computer — judging a book Sweden natives the Cardigans while their sound can be likened Top 5 Additions of the Week by its cover? You bet. are most well-known in popular to that of the rising indie-rock Luckily, the music inside backs culture for their single "Love genre. Each song on the disc 1. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Young Shields (Tomlab) me up on this admittedly shal• Fool" that was featured in the provokes its own image, calling 2. The Brotherhood of Electricity, Invisible +2 (Super Secret!) low first impression. Although movie Romeo and Juliet. If, like to mind some familiar scene to 3. Chicago Underground Duo, In Praise of Shadows (Thrill Jockey) the title track, and current single, me, you haven't been following which it could be the perfect 4. Dive, Deconstructed Piano (Lona) has an unfairly catchy chorus, the Cardigans since the band's soundtrack. 5. The Sword, Age of Winters (Kemado) this must have been an accident. 1996 album, The First Band on — Julie Rankin THE PEAK ARTS February 27, 2006 Film . . . And More Music In Film Form Cheapo's-R-Us Student films show potential Ten inches/bucks or less E-mail your student-hosted events Justin Man & Agnes ter again, this time the humour a sign of the true craftsmanship niscent of films by Todd Solondz (less than $10) to [email protected] Gulbinowicz held some inherent human value developing in this young artist. — a scene showing a father and The Peak and resonated long after the The film Greenfields, a work daughter banally conversing This week's theme is AC/DC, just projector's electrical plug was by Gorman Lee — seeped in the while playing Twister evoked the because they're so awesome! Student films are not about flashy pulled. Some of the themes that profane and perverse — was a oddness and discomfort of films production values. They are about were explored this year included nice homage to the films of David like Happiness. The desaturated Tuesday and Thursdays ideas. If you allow yourself to get matters of the heart, notions of Lynch. The film is about a sub• quality of the picture added to Tummy, tummy, tummy, I got love past the bad sound, the awkward identity and home, the quashed lime, picture-perfect town that the scene's tension and feeling in my yummy . . . Love your animal friends by eating veggie at the SFU acting, and the poor lighting, circumstances arising from living has, hidden in its dark woods, a of unease. Forum Chambers, between the SFU you can catch a glimpse of great in capitalist urban milieus, para• seedy carnal lair where hedonistic These 2nd-year films are a Theatre and the coffee shop named things to come from young film• noia, and the darker, self-serving things take place as a requisite promising indicator of some after that Stevie Wonder makers who care about explor• side of humans. balance that allows the whole• thought-provoking work to come song, the one that the Red Hot ing emotional truths rather than some reality of the village to be Each film emanated a personal in the future. As these promising Chili Peppers covered. impressing with big noises and maintained. vibe, a developing voice speak• filmmakers continue to develop 12-2 p.m. $5 suggested donation. visual pizzazz. ing despite the fact that many The playfulness often found in a voice that is uniquely their The 2nd-year SFU film stu• of the films drew upon various a Godard film was uniquely cap• own, I can only imagine that Tuesday, February 28 dents had six of their short genres and renowned filmmak• tured in Jeff Kraus' Snap, and, they will explore deeper across Shiver, Pedwell, GLIM Project, Solidus films screened to a flock of ers for their inspiration. the oddity of Good Question by unchartered territory. I wait to be @ The Media Club, 695 Cambie St. (no filmgoers during last Thurs• An Awkward Comfort, directed Meghan Armstrong was remi• enthralled by them. minors), $7 (with free CD!). day's free noon show. Vitality by Cameron Maitland, shared flowed out of each of the films the sensibility of films like Gar• Wednesday, March 1 in small but poignant ways. In den State, Thumbsucker, and Me Open jam, where the stars and jokes previous years, 2nd-year films and You and Everyone We Know. are made. Believe-you-me, nothing is have lacked depth and a desire Set mostly in the waiting room funnier than watching someone suck-it- to tackle subject matter in cre• of an abortion clinic as a girl up. @ The Asbalt, 769 E. Hastings. ative and experimental ways, waits for her appointment, the so this year's batch came as a film explores the awkwardness Thursday, March 2 welcome surprise. This year's of everyday human interactions Beth Southwell @ the Our Town films shook things — they went and the difficulty of connecting Cafe, 245 E. Broadways (all ages). against traditional narrative on a meaningful level as the Free. convention — by loosening up, girl's goofy male friend tries to and then re-bending the rigid take her mind off the looming Thursday, March 2 cookie-cutter film standards ordeal through a series of silly Dissolve — presented by Health & that often confine and limit conversations. The film also Career Counseling; performed by filmmakers. showcased a snazzy piece of Meghan Gardiner @ SFU Theatre, Burnaby Campus at 12:30 p.m. In the past, many SFU film editing — as the camera slowly Free admission. students have fallen prey to spins around the room, the making humourous films which, waiting male friend is shown in various positions on every piece Thursday & Friday, March 2 and 3 though funny, ultimately had no Black Box Theatre is written, of furniture. It was a clever way lasting impact. While this year's Justin Mah / THE PEAK directed, and performed by to show the passage of time and audience was brought to laugh• Thursday's free noon show featured some of SFU's best filmmakers. students. The enormously popular bi-weekly shows are free, but seating is limited. Tickets are released A@ SFU Theatre Box Office 1/2-hour prior to performance. Thursday, 7 Chappelle takes hip-hop back to the streets p.m. and Friday, 7 and 9 p.m. Joe Paling Walks" by Kanye West, and serve as a march• Friday, March 3 Associate Staff Writer ing parade along the streets leading up to the Sealed With A Kiss presents: concert location. S.T.R.E.E.T.S., Ladyhawk, A Javelin Dave Chappelle's Block Party opens March 3 at The musical performances in this docu• Reign @ 156 W. Hastings Artspace a theatre near you. mentary are put together quite well. The film * (all ages), $10 advance. has the feel of old Woodstock documentaries, Friday, March 3 This music documentary is set almost two which is exaggerated by the old hippy couple Bend Sinister, Pequod, years ago, at the height of Dave Chappelle's who live on the street above and let Chappelle heartwarmongering @ Pat's Pub, popularity and comedy career, when his show and a few close friends watch the concert 403 E. Hastings, $7. was still airing new episodes. The concept is from their roof. clean and simple; Chappelle is a big star and "If I was a location scout and I needed a Saturday, March 4 he wants to throw the ultimate outdoor con• crack house, I'd recommend this place," is Channels 3&4, ENDURANCE @ Pat's cert on the streets of Brooklyn. how Chappelle describes the building. Pub, 403 E. Hastings, $6. Chappelle admits that he was a fan of all Overall, the film doesn't show us more the artists performing before he was famous. than two minutes of any song — which These artists include Mos Def, Common, works well to keep the flow of the film going. Kanye West, Erykah Baduh, Talib Kweli, Dead The comedy in the film is not as cerebral Prez, and the just-reunited Fugees. as the stuff on the Chappelle's Show, and The Roots act as a backing band for most of Charlie Murphy is severely missed. When arts, the concert, adding much live energy to the Chappelle takes the stage he sticks mostly to hip-hop concert, filmed September 18, 2004. simple one-liners. Early on in the film, we are shown Chap• Photo courtesy of Comedy Central "How many white people does it take to peak, pelle's hometown of Dayton, Ohio. He goes Dave Chappelle considers joining a golf league. change a light-bulb?" is one of them, the around with 18 golden tickets that he hands punch-line being too racy to print here. Re• sf u. out to random people in the city. These tick• ing the lady at the corner store where he buys gardless of the simplicity of the jokes in the ets provide a free bus ride and hotel room. his cigarettes. film, it still makes you laugh at points. "Not even Willy Wonka had this few tickets," He also gets the marching band of Central So, if you like Dave Chappelle's comedy or ca Chappelle declares. He gives them to some State University to come along. They back up are a fan of good hip-hop, then make this film random and not-so-random people, includ- a few songs in the film, the best being "Jesus your choice for Tuesday night. THE PEAK February 27, 2006 ARTS Film Breaking the Silence Remember this Cool film, stuff available at SFPIRG library, for free! cot? This giant cot? Nick Pannu terror after 9/11. Day and night, inhumanity perpetuated is not Remember , Peok The Peak Afghan cities and villages were confined to demagogue regimes bombed. In the early conquest of lacking civil infrastructure. Pilger ffrts Editor Kevin Often while students are seek• Bin Laden's sanctuary, 3,000 Af• thoroughly examines U.S. foreign ing refuge from the rain, they ghani civilians died. One segment policy initiatives that involve the become somewhat in awe of the expresses the grief of the one overthrow of democratic regimes. tolonde^pHe is strW immense ceiling that provides surviving member of a prominent Some of those U.S. interventions shelter under SFU's Convocation family, and how she is treated have involved democracies in d^giontf co^ ond Mall. Yet, venturing further down with indifference by U.S. officials which elections have been ma• the corridor towards the main ro• in spite of her tragedy. When she nipulated by U.S. intelligence. needs your Jielp!! tunda above the bus stop, a totally approaches the U.S. embassy for In Chile, 1970, the United States new frontier exists that promises compensation, officials bluntly helped overthrow a democratic to enlighten and challenge one's tell her to "go away, you beggar." government in an election which previous mindset: SFPIRG. Pilger provides many grim rev• involved the cumulative death of The Simon Fraser Public Inter• elations. He demonstrates how 30,000 people. Pilger enlightens est Research Group (SFPIRG) is a foreign aid sustains the salaries his viewers further when he re• student-funded and -directed re• of Afghan government officials veals the existence of a special source center at SFU, supporting instead of going directly towards U.S. military training centre, environmental and social change. the rebuilding of infrastructure more often called a terrorist After only a few steps into this en• in Afghanistan. As a result, cit• training school — "The School tity, one will be astonished by the ies lay in ruins and drinking Of the Americas" — in the south• shelves of books divulging vari• water remains contaminated. ern United States. Interrogation ous issues such as child poverty, Afghan warlords have replaced methods involving torture are sustainability, and colonialism. the ousted Taliban. In many discussed in classroom lectures. Not only in text, but also ways they are more corrupt and The diploma from this school through visual content on video, oppressive than the Taliban. was actually seen posted on the human rights struggles and the Women are subjected to humili• headquarter walls of foreign mer• work toward environmental ating chastity tests if caught with cenaries. sustainability are addressed. Im• unrelated men. The daily routine John Pilger's Breaking the Si• mersing oneself into this alterna• of most Afghan women consists lence: Truth and Lies in the War on tive medium will reveal the de• of dealing with the imminent Terror can be checked out from ceptions that mainstream media threat of being kidnapped and the SFPIRG office (along with frequently articulate. Acclaimed raped by warlords. Pilger does not other videos, books, magazines, journalist John Pilger takes such hold back. He explicitly illustrates and reports). SFPIRG staff and an initiative to shed light on the these atrocities. There is one story volunteers are available to assist E-mail hideous prophecy that manifests of how 35 women, consisting of in finding the relevant resources itself through U.S. foreign policy mothers and their daughters, and answer any questions. arts@mail. peak, sf u. ca in his documentary Breaking the committed suicide by jumping SFPIRG is open Monday to Silence: Truth and Lies in the War into a river to avoid being raped a Friday, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. and to get involved. Weekly on Terror. second time. is located in TC 326, two floors Arts Writers meetings Abruptly, Pilger begins by illus• As well, Pilger illustrates how above the bus stop, between West trating how Afghan society paid since 1945, the U.S. has instigated Mall Complex and Convo Mall. every Tuesday at 1:30 the brutal price for the war on 72 foreign interventions. The www.sfpirg.ca. Why Northwestern? We're Passionate About Your Future in Natural Health Care! 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Like little kids tak• ing sick pleasure in roasting ants Stefan Aleksander Also on display and probably Final Destination 3 is showing with a magnifying glass, they in• The Peak most notable is a collection of everywhere that deatii is available corporate a plethora of unusual 23 Northwest Coast Aboriginal en masse. objects and occurrences into a Tlie Brian Jungen exhibit will be masks fashioned out of Nike Air deadly chain reaction, the end on display at the Vancouver Art Jordans. Entitled "Prototype for Essentially, Final Destination 3 is result of which is extremely bru• Gallery until April 30. Go. Now. New Understanding." Jungen's a snuff movie. If you're paying to tal. Whether it's being scorched use of a universally-recognised see this film, then you're paying alive trapped in a tanning bed In a tucked away corner of the brand of footwear to recreate the to see people die. There are no or getting a head blasted full of Vancouver Art Gallery, 1 come ritualistic symbols of indigenous moral loopholes. If you're sitting nails, Wong and Morgan clearly across a group of young urban - people gives the viewer a stylised in that theatre, stuffing your face have a natural talent at thinking ites gathered around a Sony depiction of traditional cultures with over-priced and over-but• of creative ways for their charac• flatscreen like it was a campfire. clashing with global capitalism. tered popcorn it's because you ters to die. The video glowing against their The sacred meets the sweatshop. want to watch people get killed. Despite the grim and some• pale winter faces has a somewhat The artwork begs the ques• Even the trailer promises that what distasteful premise, Final instructional quality to it as they tions: what is disposable? What is "this time death will finish them." Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Destination 3's intentions are observe with attentive eyes. The negotiable? In what do we place If you've seen any of the other This ride . . . "may" be the death not at all evil. Films like this and lesson appears to be on how to value? And who is that small clan Final Destination films, then you of you . . . maybe. the recent Hostel seem to revive make a shelter out of cheap fur• gathered around the television already know the drill. This time, the element of audience inter• niture from Ikea. This is no doubt set? Actually they weren't part of going up against death is Wendy only by a bunch of vague clues action I love to have when see• one of those survival skills our the exhibit, but I imagine for a Christensen, a high-school grad found in photos taken of the ing a movie. Cringes of disgust parents never taught us. moment how this same group of who gets a premonition and saves survivors on the night of the acci• and cheers of satisfaction could It turns out the video is really a city dwellers might survive in the herself and a few classmates from dent, and the convenient fact that be heard throughout the theatre behind-the-scenes glimpse into wild. If a natural disaster or global dying in a rollercoaster accident. death strikes its poor, clueless as those wonderfully gruesome the construction of an art instal• pandemic hit and society as we After a quick reference to the orig• victims in the same order they images flashed before the au• lation by Brian Jungen; a collec• know it collapsed, who would inal Final Destination to fill some would've died if they had been dience's eyes. Final Destination tion of his work is now showing know how to survive? To hunt plot holes, the audience is able to on the rollercoaster, Wendy and 3 is a good reminder of how fun until April 30. In one of the large and grow food, make shelter, and piece together the pathetic plot. Kevin run around desperately try• it can be to see B-list Hollywood showrooms, the B.C. native and keep warm? Basically, death (often weakly ing to warn the others. However, crap. There's something com• his team have constructed a tee• Maybe that's a bit of a stretch, portrayed by ominous wind or most of the time they arrive too forting in the predictability of pee covered entirely by leather but Jungen's art does remind us flickering lights) is out to finish late or are simply scoffed at, and it all. When you walk into that stripped from nearly a dozen how consumerism breaks our the job and hunt down those who the audience is finally treated to theatre, you know you're going couches. Holy cow. ties to nature and that in a global survived the accident. Wendy and what it wants to see: Some really to get exactly what you expect: Or is that a whale skeleton? Yep. village, even culture is a com• her dead boyfriend's best friend outrageous death scenes. An obligatory boob shot or two, In another room, a larger-than-life modity. Kevin are now faced with the Writers James Wong and Glen a lot of extravagant violence, replica made out of plastic patio The exhibit is a must see. Ad• task of saving the other survivors Morgan construct some unbeliev• and a enjoyable escape for a furniture hangs from the ceiling mission is $10 for students or before death gets to them. Aided ably outlandish death sequences couple hours. — a fossil from a petroleum prod• go Tuesday evening and pay by uct. It's ironic and it's art. donation. •• • .sr.- : EURO IS WAIT G! Travel CUTS has sent over 1 million Janis Janus passengers to Europe over the years. 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Ask anyone which hockey event Thus far in their short exis• they are most looking forward tence, the team has played a se• to and the usual array of an• ries of exhibition games against swers will pop up: the Memorial teams representing TWU, UVic, Cup playoffs, the Stanley Cup and a handful of teams from playoffs, or perhaps the World the American Collegiate Hockey Hockey Championships. Not Jeff Association. As a matter of fact, Dubois. He's got something a SFU had inquired into the pos• little closer to campus in mind. sibility of joining the ACHA but Dubois is busy putting to• was turned down, as the asso• gether the final touches on ciation does not accept teams SFU's upcoming entry in the from outside the United States, B.C. Intercollegiate Tournament, at least for now. So what's Plan to be held at Langley Twin Rinks B? Create your own league, of on March 17-18. Not following? course. Perhaps it is best to begin with According the Dubois, the SFU some background information. hockey team will participate Contrary to popular belief, in what he calls a "formal" B.C. SFU does, and 1 repeat does, Intercollegiate Hockey League in fact have a hockey club. One starting in fall 2006, consisting which, according to Dubois, of teams from the aforemen• who serves as the club's vice tioned TWU, UVic, and possibly president in charge of finances, teams from UNBC and even sponsorships, and scheduling, SFU Surrey. The move would has been around unofficially see the team relocate from their for nearly three years now. current "home" arena in Mis• What is perhaps more surpris• sion to somewhere a little closer ing than the fact that SFU has to campus. "Our immediate had a team for three years is plan is to have fall home games that they have managed to fly played either in Burnaby or almost completely under the New Westminster," said Dubois, radar, unbeknownst to the ma• who also revealed that Queens jority of the student body. This, Park Arena or the Bill Copeland of course, is due in large part Arena are possible destinations to the hockey team's status as a for the team, who are hoping "sports club" under SFU Recre• the closer proximity to campus ation and Athletics (not unlike may help draw more SFU stu• the Men's Volleyball Club, the dents to the games. Courtesy of Lisa Kwiatkowski / SFU Hockey rugby team, and the lacrosse "We've had about 1,000 The SFU hockey team looks on to open ice. team), as opposed to being a people in total so far [at our full-blown varsity club. Yet, ac• games]," said Dubois, "We've covering the team's operating Despite the money matters, and/or competitive club, which cording to Dubois, this has not played Trinity a few times out expenses, which includes ice the team has stayed true to would open them to the possi• hindered the on-ice product nor there and a Junior B team, and time, team jerseys, and socks their self-made roots and, due bility of receiving funding from has it dampened the short- and that got a pretty good crowd." (the players provide their own in large part to the efforts of the university. long-term goals of the club. Dubois does note, however, equipment), fan support will people such as Dubois, have As for the possibility of SFU "It's not CIS [Canadian In- that playing in Mission has play a large part in the viability helped the team prosper by hockey ever joining the ranks teruniversity Sport], but it's made it difficult to draw more of the franchise moving for• signing various sponsorship of varsity sports, Dubois kindly good competitive hockey," said than just friends, family mem• wards. Despite the pressure, deals with local businesses, declined to comment, only of• Dubois of the hockey team that bers, and occasionally Mission Dubois seems fairly confident including the Mission Springs fering up the fact that, as far as was officially approved as a residents out to games. With the SFU student body will em• Brewing Company, ABC Coun• his own team goes, their goals club sports team in November sales of tickets going towards brace the hockey team now that try Restaurants, UPS, and are more short-termed and the word is out they exist. Chevron. And while the team they can ill-afford, at least at "Hockey is the number-one would ideally like to get some this point in time, to deal with Fun facts about SFU hockey sport in Canada. I don't see any financial support from SFU matters beyond their control. reason why we can't get a bunch Recreation and Athletics, they "If Recreation and Athletics • As the team is a sports club at the door on game nights, or by of students coming out to watch know that is not immediately wanted to put together a varsity under SFU Recreation and visiting them online. us, especially if it's close to cam• on the horizon. hockey program. . . awesome," Athletics, the club is all inclusive. • The SFU Hockey Club is also pus, affordable, and a good prod• said Dubois, "[but] we have Formal tryouts, which are held looking for people to get involved "As a first-year club we're not uct," said Dubois. Fans may also eligible for funding, but we're short-term goals. Those are: get in September, are open to all in an off-ice capacity. Positions have added incentive to attend [people] involved in this league, students, alumni, faculty, and include promotions, media, and hoping to climb that ladder," Staff, male or female. finances. At! interested should e- the games knowing that partial said Dubois. "Recreation and put as good a product on the • The SFU Hockey Club conducts mall [email protected] proceeds from ticket sales as well Athletics has been pretty good ice as we can, and have a good casual drop-in hockey for ait skill • The schedule for the fall season as 50/50 sales during the game to us. Geoff Gowe [SFU Ath• time. We're here to represent levels. Details on the next drop-In is tentatively scheduled to be go to support minor hockey in letics Clubs Coordinator] has the school. Everyone's sacrific• hockey date can be found online released in August. The schedule the local community, which, in given us any help that we've ing their time and money to at www.sfuhockey.ca will likely consist of a 12-15 fall 2006, will likely be the com• needed." The ladder that Du• play. Guys are glad they're rep• • Tickets are available by game home schedule and an munity of either Burnaby or New bois refers to would be the resenting their school." contacting the SFU hockey team. overall 30-35 game season. Westminster. rise towards becoming an elite THE PEAK SPORTS February 27, 2006 21 Olympics Canadian Women strike gold in Italy SP0RTB^\# Strong performance in Turin allows the women to stay on top Jen Hardwick Sports Editor nating Sweden in virtually all aspects of the game. Their on• Chris Beaton relieved of slaught would continue in the duties second period. Before they reached the mid• point of the second period, After 23 years as the head coach veteran Hayley Wickenheiser of SFU's football team, Chris fed Cherie Piper (Scarborough, Beaton has been relieved of his ON / Dartmouth College), who duties. Over the course of his ca• notched her first goal of the reer, Beaton amassed a win-loss game, and seventh of the tour• record of 85-131. This season the nament. At this point, it was Clan finished winless for the first evident Team Canada was not time in its 40-year history. going to let up on the opponents who were challenging them for Softball team off to good gold on the podium. One minute start 29 seconds later, the Canadians would go up 4-0 as Jayna Hefford received a well-placed pass by Despite weather difficulties that Jennifer Botterill, to beat Martin have caused games to be rained at 10:27 in the second period. out and cancelled, the Clan The game wasn't over, however, women are making the most of as Sweden proved early in the their time in Hawaii. SFU started third period. On a much-needed their season when they played Christopher Pike / CUP power play, defenseman Gunilla Hawaii Pacific University, win• The Canadian women show off their gold. Anderson was able to get past ning their two games 2-1 and 8-5, Kyle Lesclsin ing afternoon over an intimidated take long for spectators, or Team the Canadian goalkeeper on her respectively. The team then fol• Associate Staff Writer squad from Russia. From there, Sweden for that matter, to realise team's eighth shot of the game. lowed up with a 9-0 win against the women never looked back as the Canadian women meant Sweden's first marker of the Chaminade University on Febru• On the evening of February 20, they outscored the remainder of business Monday night as Gillian game at 5:24 spoiled the shutout ary 22. They are back in action on 2006, the Canadian women's their opponents in round robin Apps (Unionville, ON / Dart• for Charline Labonte, who faced February 24 and 25. hockey team struck gold in the play and the finals 18-2. mouth College) opened the scor• a considerably less amount of 2006 Winter Olympic Games in ing at 3:15. A sleek wraparound, rubber in the match than her Turin, Italy. Their 2006 podium followed by a backhander, sur• counterpart Kim Martin. Men's basketball ends position marks the women's sec• By this point prised Swedish netminder Kim Gunilla Anderson's goal early in season ond consecutive gold medal in the women were Martin, as Apps put her squad up the third period would be as close Olympic play, led by superstars 1-0 early in the contest. as Sweden would come, however, On February 18, SFU's men Captain Cassie Campbell, and dominating Outshooting Team Sweden 11- as her team would fall to a much lost to the number-one-ranked assistants Hayley Wickenheiser Sweden in virtually 2 a little over halfway through stronger and more talented group UBC Thunderbirds 82-63. The and Danielle Goyette. the first frame aided the Cana• from Canada. Skating away men put up a strong fight, with The Canadian women's team all aspects of dian women in their determina• with a 4-1 victory, Team Canada Aaron Christensen scoring 23 was the group to beat heading the game. Their tion to further themselves from would go on to enjoy their second points and 15 rebounds, and into the competition, which com• onslaught would a lacklustre-looking Swedish straight Olympic gold medal po• Nolan Holmes picking up 17 menced on February 11, 2006. group. At 12:13, Caroline Ouel- dium position. points. Sadly, their effort was The women set the mood with continue in the lette (Montreal, QC / Minne- Team Canada will have added in vain, as UBC had four play• an impressive 16-0 win over a second period. sota-Duluth, WCHA) received a pressure to defend their gold ers score into the double digits, considerably less-talented Team nifty pass from linemate Jayna medal in the next edition of and shot 48 per cent at the Italy in the opening round of ac• Hefford on a two-on-one, which the Winter Olympic Games, as three-point line, giving SFU tion. Team Canada continued to Women's gold-medal action she converted to Team Canada's Canada prepares to be the cen• little chance. The Thunderbirds showcase their talents and expe• began at 8:30 p.m. Turin time second goal of the game. By this tre of attention when they host Jrosted the Pac-D finals this rience in a 12-0 romp the follow- at the Palasport Arena. It didn't point the women were domi- the games in 2010. past weekend. Hockev Travel CUTS is owned and operated by the Canadian federation of Students. Burnaby Campus: Swimming Room MBC2270 604-659-2850 ?'TRAVEL CUTS Downtown: 567 Seymour St. 604-659-2830 See the world your way Swim team disciplined www.travelcuts.com Parking is getting harder to find. 'Rookie ritual' takes Clan out of NAIA Championships Jen Hardwick According to a press release, The code in question is given Sports Editor a panel of SFU administrators to swimmers at the beginning of determined "that a social event the year, and according to Nello The SFU varsity swim team organised by senior members of Angerilli, acting associate vice- won't be attending the NAIA the swim team contravened the president, students and inter• Championships this year. The written code of conduct" and national, it contains "a range of team is being disciplined for decided that the team would things. One of them is behaviour "rookie rituals," which took "lose the privilege of competing place at an off-campus party. in the NAIA competition." Continued on page 23 Come and see what we're doing about it: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:30 am - 2:30 pm WMC 2nd Floor - outside Raven's Cafeteria Wednesday, March 1, 2006 10:30 am - 2:3.0 pm South AQ - below Audio Visual Visit the exhibit or www.sfu.ca/security/Parking/. Justin Mah / THE PEAK THE PEAK SPORTS February 27, 2006 23 Wrestling Swim team Continued from page 22 towards each other." SFU goes for the gold Some of the students involved had taken part in a similar in• It's victory after victory for Clan wrestlers. What's next? cident a few years ago, and the administration felt it couldn't Jen Hardwick of returning with gold medals at afford to be lenient, considering Sports Editor their weight divisions." the repeat offenses. "It's not easy SFU has not had an NAIA to make a decision like this, but SFU's wrestling team continued champion in four years. we felt we had to send a clear its highly successful season In addition to looking for suc• message," said Angerilli. on February 18. Fresh off of cess at the NAIA, SFU is hoping Three swimmers were not a home tournament that saw to claim a CIS championship. present at the party, and were both the men and women's "Our women [are] expected to given an opportunity to com• teams win Canada West, two win, as we have four seniors pete, but decided against it. "It Clan wrestlers have claimed in the group and have won the was a personal decision," said NAIA regional titles. past three years at the CIS," Angerilli. Mikhail Abdul-Latif and said Jones. "We certainly could McGill University cancelled Roozbeh Banihashemi were the lose the event if we compete their football season after haz• only two wrestlers SFU sent to poorly. I certainly do not expect ing of a sexual nature came to the tournament, but their per• this, but one of the things that light, drawing national atten• formances proved they were makes sport exciting is that tion. While the incident at SFU enough. Banihashemi took first anything can happen." was characterised as "far less place in the 197 kg division, and Anything could happen, but serious" and "more stupid than Abdul-Latif swept the heavy• with such a strong season be• dangerous," the SFU adminis• weight class. hind them, it is hard to imagine tration felt they couldn't take Both men will advance to the that anything could go wrong any chances. National Championships, and for this group of wrestlers. Even The SFU men's swimming team according to head coach Mike if it does, they have already has been the NAIA champion Jones, they are expected to per• proven they're among the best for the last three years, and the form well. "Our two athletes that of the best. women were champions in five won the NAIA regional are past Both the CIS and NAIA out of the last six years. Both all-Americans," he said, "and I Championships will be held in Justin Mah / THE PEAK teams are currently ranked 2nd believe they are both capable March. An SFU wrestler at the Canada West Championships earlier this month. in the NAIA. Making a difference: it's your core value. Are you it all, manages to get good grades? If so, you could Millennium Les bourses someone who's an inspiring leader, an innovative be on your way to an award worth $4,000 to $10,000. Scholarships du millenaire thinker and who's involved in his or her community? If you're already in post-secondary studies, find out Someone who wants to make the world a better place more about the millennium excellence award at for all the right reasons? And someone who, through www.awardforexcellence.ca. IT'S NOT ABOUT BEING DIFFERENT... IT'S ABOUT MAKING A DIFFERENCE. 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Not only does our Prophet problems and secure the peace and happi• tack religion. If these people had morality, most Merciful, All praise be to Allah, Lord Muhammad (PBUII) touch the hearts of ness which the world is longing for." Now, they would know that there is a line you of the worlds. We praise Him, seek His help, Muslims, he grasps the hearts of human• after these few comments by non-Muslims just don't cross! Perhaps they knew about and seek His forgiveness. I bear witness that ity. A man by the name of Michael II. Hart, (and there arc many more), it is inconceiv• morality three years ago, when some there is no deity worthy of worship except author of The 100: A Ranking of the Most able how the dearest man to humanity can man drew cartoons of Jesus (PBUH) and Allah; He is alone, having no partners. And Influential Persons in History, said, "My be seen as a terrorist and depicted in such brought it to Jyllands-Posten. The same I bear witness and testify that Muhammad choice of Muhammad to lead the list of a repulsive way. Muhammad (PBUH) was people that published the caricatures of (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) the world's most influential persons may the most respectful man to live. He lived Muhammad (PBUH), refused to publish is the final messenger of Allah. surprise some readers and may be ques• in peace with Christians and Jews and those of Jesus (PBUH) because it would I would like to begin with a little intro• tioned by others, but he was the only man although many times he was insulted and offend people. Go figure that one out! duction to Islam. The Arabic word "Islam" in history who was supremely successful physically beaten by them, he never once I was shocked when I saw the issue of The simply means "submission" and derives on both the religious and secular level." hurt or insulted them back; rather, he for• Peak [Editorial cartoon, February 6, 2006J. from a word meaning "peace." In a reli• Yes, I guess it did come to as a total shock gave them. I couldn't believe that Dock Currie could gious context, it means complete submis• for that newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 1 know that every single Muslim (and have been allowed to publish the image of; sion to the will of God. It is important to Denmark, as they had to go and publish many non-Muslims) in the world feels our dear Prophet (PBUH) again. Although emphasise that the word "Islam" is not de• discriminating and outrageous pictures the pain, the anger, and the sorrow I feel. it was in silhouette, it does not change the rived from the name of any particular per• of what they believed the most influential How Jyllands-Posten in Denmark and the fact that it is immoral! It saddens me that son, race, or locality. Muslims consider the man in the world was like! Whoever was other groups around the world took part Mr. Currie is so ignorant as to what is really term "Mohammadanism," which is used involved with in displaying going on. He just can't see the bigger pic• by some writers, to be an offensive viola• the dealings of such insult• ture. Yes, as a Muslim I admit that some of tion of the very spirit of Islamic teaching. these carica• ing pictures of the protesting in the Arab world got carried The Prophet Muhammad (PBUII) is not tures is igno• Muhammad away. The bombing of Danish and Norwe• worshipped; he is not regarded as the rant, and will (PBUH) cannpt gian embassies was not necessary and I founder of Islam or the author of its Holy never reach the be described regret that it did happen. However, that is Book, the Qu'ran. level that the in words. The such a small fraction of what the Muslims Another essential concept about Islam Prophet (PBUH) least they can are really doing. Unfortunately, the media that should be clarified is the term "Allah." It reached. do for insult• here is so biased that it only focuses on the should be emphasised that the term "Allah" George Ber• ing over a bil• bad aspects of this crisis. Most Muslims are has no connotation at all of a tribal god, an nard Shaw, an• lion Muslims just peacefully protesting or boycotting1 Arabian god, or even a Muslim god. The other non-Mus• is to make a products, yet the press only wants to show term "Allah" in Arabic simply means "the lim, said, "The public apology. the fierce side. One and Only True, Universal God of all." To world is in dire Muslims all In life, what goes around comes around. think that Allah is different from God, with a need of a man over the world If nothing comes of our actions now, capital "G," is no more valid than saying the with the mind of Muhammad; religious have united and protested against this ac• trying to defend our religion and our! French Ghristians worship a different god people in the Middle Ages, due to their tion and did we once receive an apology? Prophet (PBUII), I am not worried. If because they call him "Dieu." ignorance and prejudice, had pictured him [Editor's Note: While Jyllands-Posten did those that committed this act are not Now I will move on to my main topic. 1 in a very dark way as they used to consider not apologise for printing the Muhammad punished now, I am not worried. As don't really know how to put my thoughts him the enemy of Christianity. But after images, they have apoligised for inadver• Muslims, we will keep fighting for equal• in words or on paper to describe my out• looking into the story of this man 1 found tently offending Muslims.] Not only is ity and for our religion and for our dear rage after having seen the way our dear it to be an amazing and a miraculous one that appalling but what is worse is that Prophet (PBUH). If those ignorant people Prophet Muhammad (PBUII) has been and I came to the conclusion that he was the people involved claim that they have don't get what they deserve now, then I recently characterised so distastefully. As never an enemy of Christianity, and must the right to freedom of speech. Yes, we all can hardly wait until they fight the big-, Muslims, our Prophet (PBUH) is dearer to be called instead the savior of humanity. In have the right to freedom of speech "le• ger war; the war against the Creator. What us than ourselves. After all, he is the best my opinion, if he was to be given control gally," but "morally" it is wrong! Attack goes around comes around. See you on example of how a true Muslim should live over the world today, he would solve our politics, attack your country, but don't at• the Day of Judgement! Last Word Policy The opinions presented here are the author's, and do not necessarily reflect those of The Peak. 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